
String puppet in the form of a male figure with a grey and black beard and articulated eyes. The puppet wears a turquoise coloured robe decorated with embroidered dragons, possibly an opera costume. Wooden feet, hands and head covered with plaster and decorated with polychrome pigment. Could be identified from the patterns painted on the face. 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.