Puppet, Hand

Object Name:

Puppet, Hand

Object ID:

1960.014.02.5

Description:

Punch and Judy puppet. Wood and textile. Turned and carved wooden head. Male soldier-like figure with uniform black, bicorn hat or chapeau. Exaggerated carvings on face. Eyes sunken. Protruding cheeks. Slightly rounded, protruding nose, broken off and worn. Closed mouth. Pointed chin. Caucasian, flesh colored head. Slightly-modeled ears. Painted eyebrows and eyelashes. Three colors in irises. Little red lacrimal ceruncle. Reddish cheeks and lips. Red nostrils. Some fine lines under cheeks to help exaggerate them. Back of head flesh colored. Hat black with many worn and flaked areas. Neck flared and costume wrapped around neck above neck. Small, blue, cylindrical costume body. Off-white and brown striped, vertical shirt on front of body, extending to waist. Two textile trouser legs attached to front. Right yellow. Left dark brown. Textile cylindrical body. Trousers extend about 3" down to top of 4" high, black boot. Boots wooden. Tapered to foot. Flat on bottom. Slight, narrow brown sleeve at top of boot to transition to trousers. Top of boot tapered to fit inside trouser leg and extends 0.7" inside leg. Short, blue sleeves at shoulders, covering arm and hands. Sleeves about 1.7" long. Arms and sleeves ~ 1.8". Wooden hands. crudely carved but with separate thumbs. Painted flesh color. Right hand broken inside sleeve. Finger openings inside head and hands. Some round red stitches in costume and right sleeve appearing to be repairs.

Material:

Wood
Textile

Dimensions:

H-17.2 W-5.5 D-2.5 inches

Credit Line:

Gift of Robert D. Jameson

Subjects:

Puppets, Soldiers