Fabulous Green Painted Hybrid Creature (Part Boar Part Dinosaur?!) vintage mexican not especially brittle or fragile

not especially brittle or fragile

looking quite architectural stood on end

very fine hand-painted decorative details

I have also found "muffineers" of the same style

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

Fabulous Green Painted Hybrid Creature (Part Boar Part Dinosaur?!) vintage mexican not especially brittle or fragileI 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