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Description
5" (13 cm.) Paper mache head with gofun finish and very expressive painted features including smiling expression, very unruly long red hair, expressively-posed gofun-finished hands, and wearing an elaborate costume comprising a silk brocade kimono over five-layered collar, and wide trousers. The red hair had special symbolic powers, believed to ward off evil spirits and childhood diseases. Generally excellent. Early 1900s.