Her demonstration almost complete, Reiko Nishioka begins taking the pins out of the dolls. No, this is not some kind of voodoo ritual going on here; Nishioka is director of education at the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach, and she's explaining the cultural underpinnings of cloth dolls to a visitor. She's just finished dressing each doll in traditional Japanese or African clothing, and now she's removing the clothes to show that -- beneath the various fabrics -- all the... More >>>