Handmade Hand Puppet with Painted Wood Face clubhouse drawing and appropriately worn

and appropriately worn

which I don't think detracts at all

is wonderfully worn with a fantastic reddish-brown patina and a great straight handle

and various leaf and flower forms

Fortunately

Handmade Hand Puppet with Painted Wood Face clubhouse drawing and appropriately wornI don't know anything about the history of this old hand puppet, which I found at an antique shop in Maine and just could not leave behind such humanity in this deeply carved and painted wooden face, with chunky screwed on nose and big drippy red mouth! And then this curly wool hair or maybe meant to be a cap, as there is another layer of brown hair peeking out at the back of his neck. He's had a life for sure, with holes now in his grey knitted wool