Cover illustration: Wooden doll dressed as a hajji, one of 350 dolls that were presented in 1893 to Queen Wilhelmina as a present for her thirteenth birthday. Collection National Museum of World Cultures inv. no. RV-1108-1. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/683870.
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Photography National Museum of World Cultures: Irene de Groot
Photography Museum Bronbeek: John Klein Nagelvoort
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