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

it's a great object just for display

which is now gone

which though fairly light in weight feels substantial

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

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