Starr, Laura B · New York, The Outing publishing company · leaf 103
Krishnagar,Bengal, Lucknow and Poona. The traveler willfind numerous collections of these in the variousmuseums. Some writer on India has declaredthat there are more gods in the country than thereare people. Many of these are in the human form,and while, strictly speaking, they are not dolls,still… … ORIENTAL DOLLS of clay, wood and other materials and painted ingay colors. In a Peep Behind the Purdah, EdmundRussel says of East Indian dolls: When a girltakes her first lesson in cooking—between four andfive years old—to celebrate this her mother permitsher to invite her little girl friends to a…
Dolls
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