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Wonderful vintage traditional Mexican folk art marionette featuring a colorful hand-painted character with expressive blue eyes, rosy cheeks, painted mustache and wonderfully animated features. The articulated figure wears a striped textile costume with contrasting black sash, brown shoes and a woven straw sombrero. Suspended by its original-style strings from simple wooden control bars, the puppet’s jointed arms and legs allow for traditional marionette movement and display. The handmade construction, painted details and charming imperfections give this piece fantastic folk-art character. A striking piece of vintage Mexican décor—perfect displayed hanging in a Southwestern, hacienda, bohemian or collected folk-art interior.