Hand-puppet Animals with Painted Papier Mache Heads - Set of 4 clay lion dressed in gendered garments woven

dressed in gendered garments woven to size

with this terrific array of unusual geometric forms dangling from every other link of the chain

with just minor dings and scratches

Widely collected by museums

Hand-puppet Animals with Painted Papier Mache Heads - Set of 4 clay lion dressed in gendered garments wovenI'm never one to pass by a charming hand puppet, and all the better to find a set of them! Here we have an elephant, cat, bird, and I'm not completely sure on the fourth one with the pink head, a pig? I think the painted painted faces are pretty fabulous, perhaps especially that blue elephant with long trunk and the long yellow beak of the bird. Their clothes are made of a sort of nylon, secured with ribbons toughly wrapped around their necks. Plenty