More than craftsmanship, some consider these pieces as true works of art. The knowledge for the elaboration of wood carvings is a process that is acquired from generation to generation. The inhabitants of Tilcajete are born and grow up closely linked to the elaboration of figures as part of the family environment; they live among the piles of copal trunks, with the tools, the painting or the process itself: the carving, the painting and the exhibition of pieces for commercialization within their homes. The grandparents made the pieces for family domestic use; before, few were prepared and it is said that they were objects for play or utilitarian: toys for children, spoons, resting benches, yuntas, carts, nativity scenes, saints, little angels and animals of the region, cats, dogs, donkeys or horses, although elephants, lions or giraffes were also made. In the same way, tiger masks were made to sell or as carnival characters.