Sentence:  Dried plants make equally good raw material for toymakers, and vivid little personalities may be born of <WSD>nut-heads</WSD> with moss or corn silk hair, and peanuts or seedpods for feet; stitched leaf skirts and tiny bouquets of dried flowers, built on a foundation of pipe-cleaners and posed against a painted background. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A head (for a doll, puppet, etc.)  made out of a nut.