Handmade Hand Puppet with Painted Wood Face large bowl In perfect vintage condition

In perfect vintage condition

but with no information on his maker or exact age

The dealer I purchased it from referred to it as an onion box

There is one dark

Handmade Hand Puppet with Painted Wood Face large bowl In perfect vintage conditionI 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