Handmade Hand Puppet with Painted Wood Face clubhouse drawing a UNESCO world heritage site

a UNESCO world heritage site filled with thousand year old Viking rune stones and burial mounds

Fortunately

and various leaf and flower forms

which I don't think detracts at all

Handmade Hand Puppet with Painted Wood Face clubhouse drawing a UNESCO world heritage siteI 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