The Dancing Chickens of Ventura Fabián San Martin de Tilcajete Simple carving and painting -

Simple carving and painting - the heart of Oaxacan wood carving

He moves easily from the natural world to the religious and to the mythical

Wood/Paint

Hermelinda crafts for these figures costumes out of strips of fabric like the Tiliche charcters from the Putla Villa de Guerrero Carnival wear

The ‚Dancing Chicken‘

The Dancing Chickens of Ventura Fabián San Martin de Tilcajete Simple carving and painting -8x11 h. 13 cm Wood Paint Origin Oaxaca Signed The Dancing Chicken, an invention by the first generation Oaxacan master carver Ventura Fabian (1938 2019) are continued to be carved by his son Norberto Fabian Xuana and painted by his wife, Blanca Estela Melchor Mendez.