Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric lenticular glasses I think of painted lobster

I think of painted lobster claws like this as coastal New England's answer to British vertebrae bone painted in the likeness of John Wesley

She moved to New York in 1942 and became well known as a sculptor creating works in clay

Great on the table or desk (I think perhaps a useful stress reliever or thinking device)

and a chunk out of the wood along the bottom edge on the back side

Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric lenticular glasses I think of painted lobsterThis wonderful thing! Its body is an old turned wooden post of some sort, into which eyes were scraped, punctuated with pencil at their centers and a little nose and mouth below, making it look rather like a cat. Around the dowel two different layers of cotton cloth were wrapped around and around, with two slits cut in the heavier cloth through which the hand sewn calico arms were pulled out. Those arms look to have received a few mends near the ends