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TYROLEAN GIRL

Marionette
mid 1970s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Type SS puppets have round wooden heads. This head is painted dark pink with a small smiling mouth painted red and white; large eyes painted blue, black and white with purple eyeshadow and black upper lashes and arched brows; a small curved line has been painted on each side of the mouth. The nose is an attached small rounded button. Hands are of moulded composition painted dark pink. The character wears a red felt bonnet with yellow felt daisy shapes as trim. The hair is of strands of yellow mohair, glued to the head; white cotton blouse with red felt jerkin decorated with yellow felt 'daisies'; white cotton skirt with a red and green floral print. Parts - head with dowel neck; unpainted wood body shaped into a bust at the front with a separate unpainted wood semi- circular bottom torso; wooden tube shaped feet painted blue; two plain dowel sticks for arms attached to hands; two dowel lengths for legs on metal hinging at feet. Parts strung together. Stringing of multicoloured threads - two metal loops on the head; one to the body back; one through each hand; one to each thigh. Controls; two plain bars of wood linked by a large metal clip with two metal eyelets each surrounded by coloured plastic caps.
Stamped PELHAM PUPPET on the top which has a large metal hanging hook. Shown in the 1975 Pelham Puppets catalogue.

Object details

Object type
TitleTYROLEAN GIRL (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Composition, wood, cloth and string
Brief description
Marionette; SS type; Tyrolean Girl; English; mid 1970s x
Physical description
Type SS puppets have round wooden heads. This head is painted dark pink with a small smiling mouth painted red and white; large eyes painted blue, black and white with purple eyeshadow and black upper lashes and arched brows; a small curved line has been painted on each side of the mouth. The nose is an attached small rounded button. Hands are of moulded composition painted dark pink. The character wears a red felt bonnet with yellow felt daisy shapes as trim. The hair is of strands of yellow mohair, glued to the head; white cotton blouse with red felt jerkin decorated with yellow felt 'daisies'; white cotton skirt with a red and green floral print. Parts - head with dowel neck; unpainted wood body shaped into a bust at the front with a separate unpainted wood semi- circular bottom torso; wooden tube shaped feet painted blue; two plain dowel sticks for arms attached to hands; two dowel lengths for legs on metal hinging at feet. Parts strung together. Stringing of multicoloured threads - two metal loops on the head; one to the body back; one through each hand; one to each thigh. Controls; two plain bars of wood linked by a large metal clip with two metal eyelets each surrounded by coloured plastic caps.
Stamped PELHAM PUPPET on the top which has a large metal hanging hook. Shown in the 1975 Pelham Puppets catalogue.
Dimensions
  • Height: 30.4cm
Object history
References: Pelham Puppets Catalogue; 1975

Belonged to the donor and her husband who regularly operated the puppet
Collection
Accession number
B.66-1993

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Record createdApril 17, 2000
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