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1965.3.136

Puppet doll wearing red textile trousers and white top, decorated with sequins and embroidery with a pink textile hat. [LKG 06/10/2009]

1965.3.136

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Collection type
Object
Description
Puppet doll wearing red textile trousers and white top, decorated with sequins and embroidery with a pink textile hat. [LKG 06/10/2009]
Long description
Puppet doll wearing red textile trousers and white top, decorated with sequins and embroidery with a pink textile hat. The figure's hands, feet, and face have been painted in white with red and black detail added in to mark finger joints and facial features. The puppet has black ?human hair and a pair of red painted wooden earrings. The red trousers have been embellished with zigzagging lines of green, red and pink threads, and with black sequins. On each arm the doll wears two red bracelets which are striped with silver thread. The doll's white shirt is decorated with crossing lines of red-orange thread which creates a diamond lattice effect, and with black sequins. At each ankle, at the bottom of its trousers, the puppet wears an orange band. [LKG 06/10/2009]
Cultural groups
Burman
Person
Field collector Lucy Margaret Eyre
PRM source Folk-Lore Society
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1904
Date collected
1904
Acquisition information
Donated: 1965
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Textile, Material Sequin, Material Metal, Material Pigment, Material String, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Woven, Process Dyed, Process Embroidered, Process Stitched
Dimensions
Width 140 mm approx, Length 290 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1965.3.136 Other numbers: D.1905.16

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