Maybe you can try Trash to Treasure on That Home Site. I don't think we could put paper figure in our gardens!! :-)

Hey October17!!!!!! I had the old woman and the old man about 17 years ago. I bought them in Mexico at a souvenier shop. I kept them outside on a bakers rack shelf on the porch for many years. I gave them away when I downsized. That is all I know about them now. susie

I just TODAY took the old women with a basket and old man with three pigs to my antique booth.I was told also they were from Mexico

They are paper mache. I have two from Mexico also. They are actually made from newspaper. Someone told me you wern't supposed to bring them over the border anymore, but I can't pass up a great deal.

go to top of this forum and click Trash to Treasure and then at the top of that one you will find Crafts and Home Decorating.

october17...I've got 2 also...if you know any "Winter Texans" from Iowa, you probably got a pair of these in your home...plus kids have 'em, grandkids have 'em, etc. etc..those trips to Mexico, ya' know! I love mine & they still grace a shelf here in my computer/craft room. Memories of Mom & Dad... Jeanne S. Good luck finding them on Crafts & Home Decor.!

Thank you all! That clears up the mystery of where she is from. It has no information at all, no "Made in" anywhere or by anyone or anything at all.

This thing is really cool. Are they hand made, does anyone know? I'll be on the look-out now for her companions.

October, they are paper mache and made in Mexico. The ones like you have with the painted faces and lots of detail were all made by hand. I saw quite a few a them when I was in Mexico a few years ago. Most of the figures you see today though are all cheap and cheap looking mass produced ones. A lot of them were produced for ceremonial or religious purposes according to what a friend told me.

Susan