An ebony black-complexioned woman with leather head, regal pose, elongated throat, brown glass eyes, leather eyelids, double row of teeth, carton torso and legs, and carved hands is standing upon a velvet covered wooden base. The woman wears rich burgundy and gold silk satin costume of Ethiopian royalty including coin decorated necklace, earrings and turban, and carries a gilded wooden lyre. Movements: she proudly lifts her head and moves it in a series of circular motions, pauses at each side and blinks her eyelids a number of times, all the while strumming the lyre. According to new research by Christian Bailly, the early Roullet models made with leather heads were created about 1867,probably for the Paris International Exposition of that year, and with internal mechanisms by Theroude. This same model is also made without a base and appeared as Negresse, No. 2, in the early Roullet catalog, priced in the luxury class. By Jean Roullet, France, circa 1867. 28" (70 cm). Four movements. One tune.