Fabulous Green Painted Hybrid Creature (Part Boar Part Dinosaur?!) vintage mexican and holding together fine

and holding together fine

spiritual objects and the contexts in which they were/are traditionally used

I have also found "muffineers" of the same style

and what I'd guess was one a short rod on the front connecting the clasp closure on the front has been replaced (some time ago) with wire

and the artist behind the wonderful sketches scattered across blank pages and margins within

Fabulous Green Painted Hybrid Creature (Part Boar Part Dinosaur?!) vintage mexican and holding together fineI really love this thing, including especially, really! for the fact that I'm not quite sure what it is meant to be, looking somewhat like a boar, but with a very dinosaur esque tail, and also making me think of a rhinoceros though of course its forest green ness makes it really none of the above! I like to imagine its carver made it for a child or grandchild, perhaps along with a whole menagerie of other creatures, which, if so, I would sure love to