Sweet Old Jig Figure in Hat with Very Short Arms and Very Long Legs brown paper bags Images featured show selected pages

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I know this puppet was created as part of as group of handmade Punch and Judy puppets to represents the "Neighbor" character

Either its maker or someone later glued it to a slab of green-gray slate

and a split in the wood down the front of the pants of the largest male figure

but are now empty

Sweet Old Jig Figure in Hat with Very Short Arms and Very Long Legs brown paper bags Images featured show selected pagesThis faceless man in top hat is one of a number of old carved articulated figures listed today, a few of them straight out of an amazing West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art, and a couple, including this one, found at a show closer to home. When it rains it pours seems like its been forever since I had a good articulated figure, and now a number of them at once, and I thought a nice thing to list them all at once, as finding the