"Worry Dolls"

Years ago, we found some tiny, cloth "dolls"....we were told they were called "worry dolls"....at a great gift shop in Mazatlan, (the Bazaar, near the Zona Dorada). They are no more than 2 or 2 1/2 inches long, 5-7 cm. Last time in Mazatlan, that same shop said they no longer carried them. Our grand-daughter has asked us to find more.
We tried the craft shop behind Joe's on the Paseo del Pescador...no luck. Anyone ever seen these little "dolls" locally?

They are from Guatemala, maybe here somewhere???

They are from Guatemala, maybe here somewhere???

Yes, from Guatemala...for some reason I was having frightening febrile visions of Zuni warriors in the home of Karen Black in her Trilogy of Terror.

A few years ago I bought some for a niece along Cinco de Mayo. Haven't looked lately but maybe they are still available there.

Google images of worry dolls

For those, like me, who had absolutely no idea what a worry doll was. What, me worry?

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=worry+dolls+guatemala&crid=6SCPWA1EIALW&sprefix=worry+dolls%2Caps%2C879&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_11

Gracias to all. Google! I should have known.

Wife buys these regularly…….. usually in the airport past security…..mid December it was the last store left of the bar on the right hand wall……. But she has found them in previous years before security opposite check in area

Try Fruity Keiko store as well…… on the corner walking from centro towards the canal bridge

Try Fruity Keiko store as well…… on the corner walking from centro towards the canal bridge

Thanks. Guess we'll have to wait for the airport. Along Cinco de Mayo today, several shops had similar dolls....most made in Chiapas, not Guatemala, which one vendor probably quite rightly pointed out "are really the same people anyway."
But these dolls were either sewn onto purses or wallets, or in a stitched-together family group of mama, papa and bambino, and with "Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo" logos.

Fruity Keiko had the same groupings, with "Chiapas" logos.

The border between Chiapas and Guatemala is "fluid," and many of the crafts are done by the same people, with a simple geographic line drawn between them.