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The top half of a painted wooden Russian doll. This half of the doll depicts the upper body of a peasant woman. The woman wears a red headscarf and carries a bunch of flowers and also what looks like a toadstool. She is also wearing a blue and yellow outfit. This doll is part of a set of nesting dolls.
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
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