Show dolls with african burial art galleries in new york last year exhibited specimens of asucan doll makers perhaps the most interesting story of dolla in africa Is that which concerns the doll custom of or a tribe du dwelling elling near lake nasa when a member of the tribe dies a rough im age of the dead person Is made of raps rags or wood and laid away in a tent thousands of doll images of dead tribe members lie ile in the tent and it Is said that the tribe believes that the dolls are the tile embodiment of the souls of the dead men by keeping leeping the souls on earth they believe they are cheat ing the fiends which are supposed to lurk beyond life the tha tent Is regarded as sacred and only the medicine men are permitted near it |