Hand puppet - Girl, Maori costume, New Zealand

Meri is made from premium quality soft velour fabric. She has long straight black hair, light medium brown skin, black embroidered eyebrows and eyelashes. Her carefully embroidered beautiful slanted brown engaging eyes look at you with love and kindness. She has cute fingers, toes, ears, nose and navel. She is made with excellent detail and is stuffed to look more like a soft toy, fabric stuffed doll, character or person. Her stuffing and design makes it easier for you to hold her and to manipulate her as a puppet. You will fall in love with Meri from the moment you pick her up and play with her.

An average size adult hand and fingers fit comfortably from the back of her body into her head, mouth and arms. Her mouth opens and she has a tongue. Her head, body, arms and legs are stuffed to allow easy handling for play and to make the puppet more like a stuffed soft toy. Bring Meri to life when you put your hand inside her and move her head, mouth and arms.

She is wearing beautiful traditional Maori dance clothing;

• Piupiu Skirt is fringed and made using black & white checked pattern fabric that resembles  fabric woven from flax. The black waist band fabric ties in a lovely bow at the back. Red under skirt.
• colourful woven headband.
• red bodice or top has buttons at the back and a v-shaped piece of fabric in white and black pattern that matches the fringed skirt.