Puppet, Hand

Object Name:

Puppet, Hand

Object ID:

1960.014.02.3

Description:

Punch and Judy puppet. Wood and textile. Carved wood devil's head. Painted hair, painted and worn horns. Hair black. Horns are off-white. Painted, brown face with slightly-detailed eyebrows, mottled goatee with black. Red, black, and brown eyes with white sclera. Red line for pupil, black dot for center. Left eye flaking. Tip nose broken off. Red lips and toothy smile with white teeth, black lines between them. Pointed ears with red stripe in center. Dark brown ribbon around neck. Head flares out. Orange fronted costume gathered under chin over neck bulge. Carved, wooden hands and short hand sections that rotate freely within sleeves. Brown cuff at end of sleeves. Two horizontal brown stripes across costume. Textile legs and bottom edge of torso portion. Carved legs and feet somewhat elongated and narrow, attached to inside of leg textile. Legs probably represent boots due to being black and smooth with heels on bottom legs. Rounded to represent boots. Some yellow under orange showing through in a few spots. Painted black hands with roughly-delineated fingers and slightly separate thumb. Brown textile sleeve on back of orange costume that extends upwards and attached to back of neck. Head does not rotate in costume. Brown sleeve allows human hand to extend upwards for fingers to go into base of head. Space in hands for human hands to fit. Right hand has small section of interior wood broken off with temporary repair there.

Material:

Wood
Textile

Dimensions:

H-15.5 W-6 D-3 inches

Credit Line:

Gift of Robert D. Jameson

Subjects:

Puppets, Devil