Tiny Asian *doll*?

This only stands 2.25" including the stand. The *doll* itself is only a bit over 1.5".
The head appears to be a glazed ceramic bead, and the arms perhaps plastic, or bone slivers.
New? Old? Origins?

 

Cool messi, What is the stand made of? You can do the old tooth test to see if it is plastic or bone

Mikey

 

Good morning, Mikey!
The stand is just a disk of wood.
The "old tooth test" doesn't work for me.

 

Oops.

 

Eek! A microcephalic doll!

 

Due to the efforts of a small group of Voodoo missionaries from late 19th C. Haiti who based themselves in the then British leased territory of Weihaiwei, (North East China) a small number of converts were made. Due to local objection to the use of zombies as farm labour, the group migrated across the Gulf of Korea to an area that is now in North Korea and settled there.

They kept themselves to themselves for many years, quietly prospering and spreading but during the Korean war their Chinese roots led them to side with the north and China, and as part of the war effort, they mass produced such dolls for the North Korean armed forces to carry, reasoning that if they were named G I Joe (later, by a devious process, to become a popular toy doll) and pierced with pins and burnt at tactically appropriate moments, the US troops would be discomforted and possibly even destroyed.

Since in most part the UN forces were not voodoo devotees, the tactic was ineffective, but some troops 'liberated' a few such dolls from captured Northern troops and brought them home as souvenirs.

In effect, what you have there is a piece of rare Korean War militaria.

Although the doll program was not a success, the the slowly perfected zombie raising program continues to this day to provide North Korea with the remarkable leadership it currently enjoys.

 

Such Zombies are recognizable by their extremely unbecoming haircuts, and ability to grin on and off like a nervous light bulb. The accompanying he-he-he-he is generated from the back of the throat, while the eyes remain uninvolved and serpentine.

 

Recognizable by their terrible hair-cuts...a la Kim Jong Il.

 

So . . . no one knows.

 

Messi, after a day or so I feel pressure to supply any answer however nonsensical.

 

Af, you need to write a book full of your nonsensical "short stories".
I would buy it, especially if you signed it.

 

Anything absurd can be made to sound sensible till you think about it.
Yesterday I saw on a menu 'Hand Battered Cod'

 

Isn't there some joke about not being able to beat your fish?

 

Isn't there some joke about not being able to beat your fish?

No, it's your meat you are not supposed to beat.........