Mendi " Payback " Dolls from Papua New Guinea: a research adventure By Kari Gluski I These are the author's two Mendi figures from Goodwill. enjoy browsing the shopgoodwill.com web site for dolls because you never know what you will find. You see everything from sad vintage dime store dolls to Jumeaus and rare German characters. One evening I noticed a pair of very unusual figures that seemed interesting. In fact, the thought crossed my mind that if there were an appropriate category at an upcoming convention, they might be competition ribbon winners since they looked so authentic and unusual. So, impulsively, I bid and won. They actually had tags with descriptions so I looked forward to using that information to research them a bit more. And to my horror, I had not paid attention to the measurements in the auction description and they turned out to be much larger than I expected - 19-inches tall. Very impressive indeed! 42 WINTER 2021http://www.shopgoodwill.com