Not currently on display at the V&A

Indian marionette

Puppet
ca.1965 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Marionette of a male Indian character with carved and painted wooden face, head and body. He has a black painted handlebar moustache, black painted hair, a red bindi between the eyebrows and red markings on the nose, ears, eyes and lips. The body is of wood with chest and arms constructed from padding. His carved turban is painted red, black, green, yellow, blue and gold. He wears an orange long-sleeved cotton tunic decorated with gold and silver tinsel ribbons and edged with black muslin, below which is a long green muslin skirt edged with black muslin, and a cream cotton underskirt. He is a traditional one-stringed marionette, but lacks the string.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleIndian marionette (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Carved wood, paint, cotton, tinsel ribbons, muslin and padding material
Brief description
Marionette of a male Indian character. Indian, ca.1965, made to a traditional design
Physical description
Marionette of a male Indian character with carved and painted wooden face, head and body. He has a black painted handlebar moustache, black painted hair, a red bindi between the eyebrows and red markings on the nose, ears, eyes and lips. The body is of wood with chest and arms constructed from padding. His carved turban is painted red, black, green, yellow, blue and gold. He wears an orange long-sleeved cotton tunic decorated with gold and silver tinsel ribbons and edged with black muslin, below which is a long green muslin skirt edged with black muslin, and a cream cotton underskirt. He is a traditional one-stringed marionette, but lacks the string.
Dimensions
  • Height: 65.5cm
Credit line
Given by the British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild
Object history
Made in the 1960s to a traditional Indian design
Other number
P.115 - British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild number
Collection
Accession number
S.536-2001

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Record createdSeptember 29, 2004
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