c. Late 19th Century Hand-carved Indigenous Folk Art Doll with Turned Head and Leather and Wool Scrap Clothing black hat with a rough upper edge

with a rough upper edge from where it was sewn and some scattered spotting

philosopher

but I'll forever look for more as I think they're fantastic--excellent looking and challenging for the brain as well as the manual dexterity

Beautifully executed and to my eye quite striking and powerful

then our young Samuel wrote in the answers

c. Late 19th Century Hand-carved Indigenous Folk Art Doll with Turned Head and Leather and Wool Scrap Clothing black hat with a rough upper edgeI have done a fair bit of digging around online since purchasing this doll at an antique show in Connecticut last weekend, but have not placed it definitively. Clearly Native American, my first instinct was from the Plains, and with the thought that he likely once sat on a horse (gripping reins in those beautifully carved hands). I am not certain, though dolls carved of wood, rather than sewn of hide, are more common to the Northeast and Northwest,