puppet

String puppet in the form of a male official with a white face and a beard. The puppet wears an ivory coloured robe decorated with embroidered dragons. Suspended belt attached to the mid-section. Wooden feet, hands and head covered with plaster and decorated with polychrome pigment. Various strings attached to a wooden suspension bar.

Part of The Louise Tythacott Collection . The Louise Tythacott Collection was compiled as the result of intensive fieldwork over several years in South China and Hong Kong. Ms Tythacott is a Chinese-speaking anthropologist and a museum curator, and was Curator of Ethnography at Liverpool Museum, who was particularly fortunate in developing contacts during the course of her work. Ms Tythacott has also made collections for the Museum of Mankind.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2001.72
Date
late 19th to early 20th century
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall (maximum): 22.8346 x 16.7323 x 7.4803 in.; 580 x 425 x 190 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
textile; wood; textile; plaster; metal thread; pigment; manmade fibre
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
In storage
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