doll (pastimes: toys)

Doll dressed in green trousers, a long green tunic with white cuffs and embroidered decoration in red, yellow and white at the neck, an orange headscarf with pink and grey patterned trim and metal decoration at the front, six earrings in two sets of three, two green rings, a necklace of red, black and gold beads, a necklace with green beads inserted and red shoes with gold braiding. There are two metal supports on the bottom.

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