# @journalstarnews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2022-10-04T14:02:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Lincoln Journal Star (@journalstarnews) — https://gondola.cc/journalstarnews

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The University of Nebraska State Museum at Morrill Hall welcomed an expert doll conservator from Japan to work on the museum's friendship doll exhibit, in hopes of preparing the doll for a future visit home.⁠
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Miss Mie was a gift to the U.S. as part of the friendship doll exchange between U.S. and Japanese students in the late 1920s, museum director Susan Weller said. Japan gave 58 friendship dolls to the United States in 1927, but only 47 remain.⁠
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In honor of the Nebraska doll's Oct. 30 birthday, the museum invited the Japanese group Friends of Miss Mie to Lincoln to celebrate. According to Weller, Masaru Aoki, a conservator from the Yoshitoku Doll Co. in Tokyo, was willing to come and the museum paid his way so he could do conservation work on his "daughter."⁠
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"In Japanese culture, inanimate objects, be they dolls or stones or trees, have spirits," Weller said. "That's why (Aoki) refers to her as special, as his daughter or granddaughter."⁠
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✏: Lauren Penington & 📷: Noah Riffe / Lincoln Journal Star

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| Lincoln Journal Star | @journalstarnews | https://gondola.cc/journalstarnews | Newspaper |
| Noah Riffe | @ijusttake.photos | https://gondola.cc/ijusttake.photos | Photographer |

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