Hand puppet

Museum number:
9-22440
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090022440
Accession number:
Acc.4735
Description:
Puppet, hand. Elderly Queen. A. Head: carved wood, pink, red mouth, black and whtie eyes, long white hair, crown on wire wrapped in white cloth, pink and white beads with yellow tassles. B. Body: cloth, white. Legs: cloth, red, white, pink and black flowered. Hands: plastic, white, hinged. Boots: plastic, black. C. Robe: cloth, blue, red cape, red and yellow fringe, larger pink-purple sequins. 56 x 38 cm (22 1/16 x 14 15/16 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:
width 38 centimeters and height 56 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 6 titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22440, described as Puppet, hand. Elderly Queen. A. Head: carved wood, pink, red mouth, black and whtie eyes, long white hair, crown on wire wrapped in white cloth, pink and white beads with yellow tassles. B. Body: cloth, white. Legs: cloth, red, white, pink and black flowered. Hands: plastic, white, hinged. Boots: plastic, black. C. Robe: cloth, blue, red cape, red and yellow fringe, larger pink-purple sequins. 56 x 38 cm (22 1/16 x 14 15/16 in)Hearst Museum object 2 of 6 titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22440, described as Puppet, hand. Elderly Queen. A. Head: carved wood, pink, red mouth, black and whtie eyes, long white hair, crown on wire wrapped in white cloth, pink and white beads with yellow tassles. B. Body: cloth, white. Legs: cloth, red, white, pink and black flowered. Hands: plastic, white, hinged. Boots: plastic, black. C. Robe: cloth, blue, red cape, red and yellow fringe, larger pink-purple sequins. 56 x 38 cm (22 1/16 x 14 15/16 in)Hearst Museum object 3 of 6 titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22440, described as Puppet, hand. Elderly Queen. A. Head: carved wood, pink, red mouth, black and whtie eyes, long white hair, crown on wire wrapped in white cloth, pink and white beads with yellow tassles. B. Body: cloth, white. Legs: cloth, red, white, pink and black flowered. Hands: plastic, white, hinged. Boots: plastic, black. C. Robe: cloth, blue, red cape, red and yellow fringe, larger pink-purple sequins. 56 x 38 cm (22 1/16 x 14 15/16 in)Hearst Museum object 4 of 6 titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22440, described as Puppet, hand. Elderly Queen. A. Head: carved wood, pink, red mouth, black and whtie eyes, long white hair, crown on wire wrapped in white cloth, pink and white beads with yellow tassles. B. Body: cloth, white. Legs: cloth, red, white, pink and black flowered. Hands: plastic, white, hinged. Boots: plastic, black. C. Robe: cloth, blue, red cape, red and yellow fringe, larger pink-purple sequins. 56 x 38 cm (22 1/16 x 14 15/16 in)Hearst Museum object 5 of 6 titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22440, described as Puppet, hand. Elderly Queen. A. Head: carved wood, pink, red mouth, black and whtie eyes, long white hair, crown on wire wrapped in white cloth, pink and white beads with yellow tassles. B. Body: cloth, white. Legs: cloth, red, white, pink and black flowered. Hands: plastic, white, hinged. Boots: plastic, black. C. Robe: cloth, blue, red cape, red and yellow fringe, larger pink-purple sequins. 56 x 38 cm (22 1/16 x 14 15/16 in)Hearst Museum object 6 of 6 titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22440, described as Puppet, hand. Elderly Queen. A. Head: carved wood, pink, red mouth, black and whtie eyes, long white hair, crown on wire wrapped in white cloth, pink and white beads with yellow tassles. B. Body: cloth, white. Legs: cloth, red, white, pink and black flowered. Hands: plastic, white, hinged. Boots: plastic, black. C. Robe: cloth, blue, red cape, red and yellow fringe, larger pink-purple sequins. 56 x 38 cm (22 1/16 x 14 15/16 in)

Tools