Marionette of a man in Middle-Eastern style dress
Puppet
ca.1950 (made)
ca.1950 (made)
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This Romanian marionette of a man in Middle-Eastern style costume is carved from two different types of wood and is constructed in a traditional method with wooden head, yoke, hands, legs and feet, with stuffed cloth body and cotton fabric arms. It has metal eyelets in each side of the head for string attachment. This marionette has wedged dowel knee joints and a leg and body joint of a soft length of rope, knotted at each end, allowing for free leg movement.
Object details
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| Title | Marionette of a man in Middle-Eastern style dress (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Carved and painted hard and soft wood with cotton, lace, chiffon, brocade, gold braid, paint and nails |
| Brief description | Marionette of a man in Middle-Eastern style dress. Carved soft and hard wood, felt, gold braid, brocade, cotton fabric and paint. Romanian, ca.1950 |
| Physical description | Marionette of a man, carved and painted, with metal head-string eyelets on either side of the head, and varnished paper hair beneath a turban. Carved from soft wood for the head body, possibly pine, and hard wood for the legs, possibly beech. Wearing Middle-Eastern style turquoise chiffon harem trousers, gold-braided turquoise brocade and velvet jacket and turban, and pale blue sash edged with cotton lace |
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| Credit line | Given by Chris Shirley-Smith |
| Summary | This Romanian marionette of a man in Middle-Eastern style costume is carved from two different types of wood and is constructed in a traditional method with wooden head, yoke, hands, legs and feet, with stuffed cloth body and cotton fabric arms. It has metal eyelets in each side of the head for string attachment. This marionette has wedged dowel knee joints and a leg and body joint of a soft length of rope, knotted at each end, allowing for free leg movement. |
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| Accession number | S.342-2019 |
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| Record created | August 5, 2019 |
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