Adam puppet

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Artist/Maker	John Thirtle (maker) Richard Gill (director)
Place of origin	United Kingdom (made)

Painted wooden jelutong head, hands and torso. Jointed wooden arms with rods attached to the hands. Has yellow and orange cotton yarn hair and black beads for eyes with a pink carved mouth and eyebrows. Wearing frayed grenn and red cotton skirt which appears like leaves.

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Categories	Entertainment & Leisure Puppetry
Object type	Puppet
Title	Adam puppet (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Carved jelutong wood with painted decoration, sewn and glued decoration Jelutong Cotton (Textile) Beads Carved Painted Glued
Brief description	Puppet representing Eve. Made by John Thirtle for Richard Gill's play The Prince and the Puppets in 1970.
Physical description	Painted wooden jelutong head, hands and torso. Jointed wooden arms with rods attached to the hands. Has yellow and orange cotton yarn hair and black beads for eyes with a pink carved mouth and eyebrows. Wearing frayed grenn and red cotton skirt which appears like leaves.
Dimensions	From the top of the crown to the bottom of the base height: 100cm From arm to arm width: 45
Content description	Eve was made for Richard Gill's play The Prince and the Puppet in 1970.
Credit line	Lanchester Collection
Subjects depicted	Eve Creation
Literary references	The puppet Eve is based on the biblical figure. Eve was the wife of Adam. According to the the Book of Genesis, Adam and Eve were created on the sixth day. Adam was formed from the "dust of the ground". According to the the Book of Genesis, Eve was fashioned from one of Adam's ribs after God had removed it. They were originally both naked and not ashamed of their nakedness. But Eve was led into temptation by the serpent by whom she was tempted to take an apple from the Tree of Knowledge. She then offered it to Adam. For her disobedience Eve was condemned to painful childbearing and to be ruled over by Adam. God then banished them from Paradise.
Collection	Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number	S.1034-2011

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Record created	March 15, 2012
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1244601/adam-puppet-puppet-john-thirtle/

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