1918.5.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Painted wooden marionette puppet wearing a cream coat and red skirt both decorated with sequins and gold threads. [LKG 15/10/2009]

Long description

Painted wooden marionette puppet wearing a cream coat and red skirt both decorated with sequins and gold threads. The doll's feet, hands and head are painted in white with details of fingers, toes and joints added in red. The facial features have been painted in black and red. The puppet has black ?human hair and wears a pair of large uncoloured glass bead earrings. The cream top is edged in red braid at the bottom and embroidered with silver-gold thread and gold sequins. Similarly the skirt, which is red, is decorated with horizontal bands of zigzagging yellow braid interspersed with gold sequins and divided unto rows by wavy lines of cream braid-ribbon. The doll's neck is decorated with painted designs in pink and orange and she wears a long necklace of pearl beads which has been looped over many times. The strings which pass through the puppet's joints and limbs have been tied to a wooden handle which can be used to animate the puppet. [LKG 15/10/2009]

Geographical reference

Myanmar (Burma)

Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma)

Person

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Arthur Harry Church

PRM source Arthur Herbert Church

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1918

Date collected

By 1918

Acquisition information

Donated: 03/1918

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Textile, Material Pigment, Material Sequin, Material Hair, Material String, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Woven, Process Dyed, Process Embroidered, Process Stitched

Dimensions

Width 240 mm approx, Length 450 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1918.5.2

Search terms: Toy and Game, Figure, Theatre and Drama, Children and Childcare, Puppet