Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric lenticular glasses I think of painted lobster

I think of painted lobster claws like this as coastal New England's answer to British vertebrae bone painted in the likeness of John Wesley

but at some point not very long ago a board was nailed to the back with a hanging loop-I would guess replacing an old back that had split fairly badly

individual cubes measure 1 1/4" per side

and 171 on the reverse side

Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric lenticular glasses I think of painted lobsterThis wonderful thing! Its body is an old turned wooden post of some sort, into which eyes were scraped, punctuated with pencil at their centers and a little nose and mouth below, making it look rather like a cat. Around the dowel two different layers of cotton cloth were wrapped around and around, with two slits cut in the heavier cloth through which the hand sewn calico arms were pulled out. Those arms look to have received a few mends near the ends