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Dressed fleas, pair (pulgas vestidas)
Guanajuato
Collected by Katharine D. Jenkins, 1957
3-28931a,b


Practiced in Mexico for well over a century, the art of dressing fleas in tiny costumes has now disappeared. This pair is dressed in tiny male and female costumes; other examples are grouped into scenes like weddings.

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