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porcelain doll 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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Add new Web site: Phila Doll Museum - History of Doll. Feb 27, 2019
Add new Web site: National Museum Wales - A History of Doll-Making: A Welsh Perspective. Sep 27, 2016
Add new Web site: History of Dolls - Dolls. Sep 27, 2016
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Society - Doll. Dec 04, 2011
Media added. Aug 26, 2009
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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