Hand puppet

Museum number:
9-22392
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4735
Description:
Puppet, hand. A. Head: carved wood, brown, red mouth, white and black eyes, black skull cap, long black hair and moustache. B. Body: cloth, gray with blue stripes. Legs: white cloth Hands: white wood. Boots: black and white wood. C. Robe: cloth, purple, edged with red and green cloth, yellow appliques, silver and green sequins, white, yellow, pink and blue rabbit fur trim. 41 x 22.5 cm (16 1/8 x 8 7/8 in)
Donor:
Senzan Hsu
Collection place:
Taiwan
Verbatim coll. place:
Taiwan
Culture or time period:
Taiwanese
Collector:
The Hsu Family
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Hand puppets
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
December 15, 2003
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 41 centimeters and width 22.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22392, described as Puppet, hand. A. Head: carved wood, brown, red mouth, white and black eyes, black skull cap, long black hair and moustache. B. Body: cloth, gray with blue stripes. Legs: white cloth Hands: white wood. Boots: black and white wood. C. Robe: cloth, purple, edged with red and green cloth, yellow appliques, silver and green sequins, white, yellow, pink and blue rabbit fur trim. 41 x 22.5 cm (16 1/8 x 8 7/8 in)Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22392, described as Puppet, hand. A. Head: carved wood, brown, red mouth, white and black eyes, black skull cap, long black hair and moustache. B. Body: cloth, gray with blue stripes. Legs: white cloth Hands: white wood. Boots: black and white wood. C. Robe: cloth, purple, edged with red and green cloth, yellow appliques, silver and green sequins, white, yellow, pink and blue rabbit fur trim. 41 x 22.5 cm (16 1/8 x 8 7/8 in)Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22392, described as Puppet, hand. A. Head: carved wood, brown, red mouth, white and black eyes, black skull cap, long black hair and moustache. B. Body: cloth, gray with blue stripes. Legs: white cloth Hands: white wood. Boots: black and white wood. C. Robe: cloth, purple, edged with red and green cloth, yellow appliques, silver and green sequins, white, yellow, pink and blue rabbit fur trim. 41 x 22.5 cm (16 1/8 x 8 7/8 in)Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22392, described as Puppet, hand. A. Head: carved wood, brown, red mouth, white and black eyes, black skull cap, long black hair and moustache. B. Body: cloth, gray with blue stripes. Legs: white cloth Hands: white wood. Boots: black and white wood. C. Robe: cloth, purple, edged with red and green cloth, yellow appliques, silver and green sequins, white, yellow, pink and blue rabbit fur trim. 41 x 22.5 cm (16 1/8 x 8 7/8 in)

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