Two Asian carved wooden medical figures, probably Chinese, each depicting a naked female, one laying on her side, 12cm long, the other depicting a naked female in a crouched seated position, 6cm high.

In Asia attitudes of feminine modesty made it improper for a woman to gesture or describe parts of her own body, because of this, when seeing a physician, a woman would indicate medical issues by referring instead to the respective anatomy of the doll.

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