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1905.83.23

Finger puppet.

On display

1905.83.23

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Collection type
Object
Description
Finger puppet.
Geographical reference
China
Asia > Eastern Asia > China
[Manchuria Manzhou] Liaoning Shenyang or Mukden
Cultural groups
Manchu
Person
Field collector Robert T. Turley
PRM source Robert T. Turley
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1905
Date collected
By 1905
Acquisition information
Loaned: 04/1905 Donated: 1913
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pottery, Process Painted
Dimensions
Length: max 110 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1905.83.23
Associated publications
This object was featured in the Museum’s ‘web gallery’ (‘Selected Objects from the Lower Gallery’) produced during the DCF-funded ‘What’s Upstairs?’ project, 2004–2006, with the following caption: 'This glove, or finger, puppet is from Shenyang in the north of China. Northern Chinese hand puppets are only about three inches tall. The puppets play on a portable stage that the puppeteer carried on his shoulders. The puppeteer works the puppets, speaks or sings the characters’ parts, and plays music.

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