On View
Not on viewMarionettes
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.
