It looks like perhaps tiny screws or nails were initially used to join sides then abandoned in favor of glue
and those three pink chimneys
pulled through a knit/crocheted structure
and the place setting in front of her
an artist best known for his depiction of scenes of Native Americans in the Southwestern U
Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored Navajo It looks like perhaps tinyThis is a total charmer of an old school book teaching counting, adding, multiplication, etc, with wonderful graphics throughout: five pears here, seven bee hives there; two bunnies, nine chairs, one excellent hand held abacus! (That abacus alone sold me on this.) A very good many of them were carefully hand colored, as are a number of half page engravings, with the color much better in hand than in my photos. I've had one or two similar to this over