RARE Poppet style, Pleasant Hill carved wood primitive Appalachian boy doll MARK

Description

Very Rare, primitive American country doll ....
This is an extremely rare primitive,
Appalachian Mountain,
hand carved, jointed cedar wood,
boy
doll, measuring about 6" tall (very similar to the pair shown on page 52, "
American Folk Dolls
" by Wendy Lavitt). Representing a young child from North Carolina circa 1930s, (similar to the pair in the Brooklyn Children's Museum and those dolls carved by Polly Page, Molly Campbell & Tom Brown, Helen Bullard school)
MARK
wears blue denim overalls over a printed cotton shirt with short sleeves and collar as well as his woven straw brimmed hat (which is nearly always missing). He still has the
original printed label
,
Mark, attached to the cuff of his trousers.
He has a nicely turned and very detailed  head, hands, hair, ears and facial details as well as smooth working joints at his shoulders and hips. He has no damages or repairs and no odors as he came from a closed museum with the museum identification still on the base of one foot. The adult family doll members are easier to find than are the children.
He greatly resembles the very sought after,
Appalachian Mountain, Kentucky
POPPET dolls
crafted by the
Combs sisters (Annie Combs Williams and Orlenia Combs Ritchie) during the 1930s and earlier.
*See page 11,
"My People in Wood"
-Helen Bullard. In the early 1930's a school,
Pleasant Hill Academy
was formed in Brown county, TN to teach crafts and trades to the mountain children.
Polly Page,
Helen Bullard, Tom Brown,
and a few others attended that school and dressed them and
named them after actual persons, pioneers and characters
on the mountains. See book photos for more details.  Polly carved them using cedar wood and a Sears pocket knife and sold them from a tiny store on the property continuing to carve through her early 90s. Book, bench and other dolls shown
NOT included
and listed separately.
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nearly all of our items are
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(usually with some signs of wear due to usage and previous storage). We do our very best to describe and photograph them for you and do not repair, restring,  repaint or enhance them in any way as most collectors prefer to find them in their original state.
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