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Doll with bisque head, human hair, and kid leather body, manufactured in the late 19th century, probably in Germany
Billions of Dreams Barbie
doll: production
Painted wooden Egyptian doll, 2000 bc.
Native American Hopi artists carve kachina dolls, representing spirits of ancestors. Children learn about the kachina spirits while they play with the dolls.
Leather dolls, possibly made by the Pondo people, South Africa.
Russian dolls
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