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String puppet depicting a female figure, probably a princess, wearing a ling dress decorated with braid, beads and sequins and with painted plaster head, hands and feet. Metal rod and operating bar attached through the head with four vegetable fibre strings tied to the hands and legs.
for puppet theatres in the home
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