Model street jazz band of 3 disabled players, 2 figures are one-legged and the other is armless. Figures, representing fleas, composed of small crab claws and willow buds for heads. There is a detached stand of instruments, which presumably once ran along the back of the object. The equipment is made of thin card painted red, orange, yellow and green. The whole group stands on a square of plain card.
Collected by Professor P. Lantham and his wife in Peking in 1937.
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