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Show Dolls of the Ancients "All the world loves a doll" though what passes for a doll in some places wouldn't be recognized as such elsewhere. In parts of South America it's a bone, wrapped in a blanket if a boy, and in a petticoat if a girl. Boys and girls in Asia Minor play with pillows as "dolls." Ancient Greek dolls were sometimes made of wax. Those of old Egypt had clay beads for hair. Cortes, on his first conquest trip into Mexico, says the Washington Post, found Montezuma and his Aztec court playing with elaborate dolls. |