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10" (25 cm.) Firmly-stuffed all-brown leather doll has stitched on leather cover over muslin form, shaped facial features including nose, chin and tiny mouth, defined neck, cut-out eye sockets with applied leather pupils, painted brows and dot lashes, black wiry hair, hand-stitched leather body with modeled bosom. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: for the French market, late-19th century, the doll was designed to represent native women of the French Martinique Islands, as described in an article about the dolls that appeared in the French journal L'Illustration at that time. Value Points: from a collection of these dolls, each unique, shown in the Musee de la Poupee in Paris, this example wearing white cotton chemise and patterned cotton skirt, silk turban, and with beaded necklace and earrings.