Handmade Crepe Paper Pilgrim (or Nun?) with Pencil Drawn Wooden Face Punch and Judy Wear all over but overall

Wear all over but overall in good shape

and find this one both exquisitely beautiful in the way it is rendered and quite poetic in its perfect matter of factness

which I found at a fantastic estate sale of a world traveller and avid collector in Lynn

signed and dated at lower right

Handmade Crepe Paper Pilgrim (or Nun?) with Pencil Drawn Wooden Face Punch and Judy Wear all over but overallNo way could I not bring this little woman home, who I found a few days ago in New Hampshire. At first I took her for a nun, but now I think more likely she was meant to be a pilgrim. Her maker did a pretty brilliant job with her crepe paper dress, especially the almost origami like wrap of her bonnet turning into shawl, knotted in the back. There are pipe cleaners under her sleeves for arms, and a wooden torso, animated with this great pencil drawn