Elaborately Beaded Miti Bharat Shrifal (Coconut), Gujarat India matador doll with terrific little cross bars

with terrific little cross bars animating each of the windows

and how wonderfully cozy they

"The Hobby Man"

with a somewhat different character to his face on each

and then given this terrific paint job

Elaborately Beaded Miti Bharat Shrifal (Coconut), Gujarat India matador doll with terrific little cross barsThis one I had to use a google image search to identify, as I really could not place it; I purchased it for the beauty of the beadwork, reminding me somewhat of late 19th century Native American beaded birds and the like. I've learned that it is, I believe, from Gujarat, on the Western Coast of India, where beadwork is called moti bharat, and I think an example of "Shrifal" beading covering a coconut (Indeed, the interior is hard and has the weight