Handmade Crepe Paper Pilgrim (or Nun?) with Pencil Drawn Wooden Face pink lining scholar & one-time assistant to

scholar & one-time assistant to Kerouac’s former wife Edie Kerouac Parker

The beautiful production of this 1908 edition of "The Perfectly Good Cynics Calendar with Astronomical Attachment" belies its contents

The black paint of her hair and brown of her body has aged and worn some highlighting the knife marks of her carving and revealing green undertones in the paint

which is now gone

Handmade Crepe Paper Pilgrim (or Nun?) with Pencil Drawn Wooden Face pink lining scholar & one-time assistant toNo way could I not bring this little woman home, who I found a few days ago in New Hampshire. At first I took her for a nun, but now I think more likely she was meant to be a pilgrim. Her maker did a pretty brilliant job with her crepe paper dress, especially the almost origami like wrap of her bonnet turning into shawl, knotted in the back. There are pipe cleaners under her sleeves for arms, and a wooden torso, animated with this great pencil drawn