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Show Dolls With African Burial. Art galleries in New York last year exhibited specimens of African (lull-makers. (lull-makers. Perhaps the most interesting story of dolls In Africa is that which concerns the doll custom, of a tribe dwelling near Lake Nyassa. When a member of the tribe dies a rough image im-age of the dead person is made of rags or wood and laid away in a tent. Thousands of doll images of dead tribe members lie in the tent, and it is said that the tribe believes that the dolls are the embodiment of the souls of the dead men. By keeping the souls on earth they believe they are cheating cheat-ing the fiends which are supposed to lurk beyond life. The tent is regarded as sacred and only the medicine men are permitted near, it. |