Sentence:  ... he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the color of a three days' old Congo baby. Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought that this black <WSD>manikin</WSD> was a real baby preserved in some similar manner. But seeing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened a good deal like polished ebony, I concluded that it must be nothing but a wooden idol, which indeed it proved to be. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person.