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farther negotiations they were sold to me at a very high price. 
They consisted of a miniature ‘‘ pesk,” with belt, without body; a 
skin doll thirteen centimetres long, with face of brass ; another 
doll, with a bent piece of copper plate for a nose; and a stone, 
SAMOYED HAIR ORNAMENTS. 
One-third of natural size. 
wrapped round with rags and hung with brass plates, a corner 
of the stone forming the countenance of the human figure it 
was intended to resemble. 
Alore finely-formed gods, dolls pretty well made, with bows 
