- "Lupita" Najaco Ceramic Dolls "Dancing Children".
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- The figurines
- Boy: Black color Charro Outfit
- 8" tall.
- Hat - 3" hat.
- Body- 2 3/4" wide.
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- Girl: Green color Dance Dress
- 7 3/4" Tall.
- 5" wide ( Hand to Hand).
- Platform
- 7" x 4 3/4"
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- This ceramic doll is made by the Arana family in Tonala, Mexico.
- The dolls/figurines are a couple of children dancing in typical outfits.
- The details are wonderful.
- Her Green Dress is painted with colorful details along with earring, necklaces and flowers in their hair.
- The boy is wearing a detailed Black Charro/Horseman suit.
- The Lupita is hand painted by Mexican artisans.
- All the Lupita's are also signed by the artisans.
- Lupita is a typical name in Mexico, thus the name Lupita was given to each figurine.
- The family proudly manufactures each figurine and is painted by hand.
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- Najaco dolls are made in Tonalá, Jalisco, the company was founded in 1992, at the beginning, the family was looking for a way to depict Mexican people's daily chores (especially women) while in their typical outfits.
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- Each figurine shows a figurine either going to cut nopales/cacti a seller of apples, vegetables, flowers, birds, the shepherd or the traditional pulquero, thus showing the every day life in a Mexican town.
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- In short, typical women/children or men doing their chores from the past and even now. Each doll is a model of Mexican woman's beauty.
- This folk art is full of colored detail. Each doll is molded, afterward each figurine is hand painted by artisans.
- Please note: these figurines are individually hand made & painted and will have slight variations one to another.
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