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Marionettes

Artist Shirley Foote Smith 1918 - 2001
Date1932-1933
Terms
  • Marionettes
  • Felt
  • Wood
  • Paint
  • Concord (Massachusetts)
  • Concord
Dimensions44.45 × 21.59 × 5.08 cm (17 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Lowell S. Smith and Sally Sanford (2011)
Object number2011.23.8
DescriptionMarionette puppet of "Christopher Clarence Carl, Prince of Carlovingia" in his hunting clothes, from the play Rumpelstiltskin. Handmade; painted wooden head and hands wrapped in cloth. Figure has long, brown, wavy hair and wears a tan felt jacket with laced closure over a white blouse, brown pants and tan knee-high boots. Strings attach the figure's hands and feet to cross-shaped pieces of wood.