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Scarecrows for mice on Vietnamese fields
  • | VietnamNet, dtinews | March 24, 2014 08:50 AM

Vietnamese farmers have resorted to using puppets to protect their fields from mice and birds for many generations, making it a sort of folk art.

In the past, puppets were made from woven straw, but their modern equivalents are made from different kinds of materials. Cloth, a set of clothes and a hat will suffice to drive birds away from the fields. Puppets are used less and less for this purpose. 

 

The puppet head made from a plastic bag on a stick

Puppet made of children clothes

 

 

 

 


Donned with a hat

A puppet made from a toy in Cao Bang Province

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