Stringed puppet depicting a male character, a geomancer, with a brown face and a black beard. The puppet is wearing a brown damask silk robe with metallic thread embroidery forming the eight trigrams and other symbols. Wooden feet, hands and head covered in plaster, decorated with polychrome pigment. Various strings attached to a wooden suspension bar.
This character is probably Bao Zhen, who was a chief minister during the Sung dynasty.
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