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Works Progress Administration Handicraft Project Ethnic Dolls
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Four dolls are dressed in costumes of unidentified origin. The dolls are wooden and do not possess facial features. The dolls have been posed as two pairs.
circa 1935
Jackson, Joseph W., III
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WHi 136290
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