Remember the grasshopper maker in Kowloon? hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/exhibitions/cent/gallery4_3_4_4.html Toy of two grasshoppers, palm leaf Made by Chan Chong Chi China, Hong Kong, Kowloon Collected by Niloufer Ichaporia, 1977. 9–13679 An exhibited “folk artist,” Chan Chong Chi was an orphan who learned his craft in Yunnan. At the age of fourteen, he became a teacher himself, instructing poor people to do this for a living. It takes three years to develop the skill. These fiber toys were formerly made of straw.
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