Marionette
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, metal and fabric.
Measurements
560 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661553
Summary
One of the puppets made for and used by the ‘Lilliput Marionette Theatre’. This marionette was identified as a type of sea creature/merman. He is from a play entitled 'The Little Mermaid' and is also used as an 'orrible apparition' in the play entitled 'Faust'. He has his control. He has a carved and wooden head painted red and green, with white eyeballs and black pupils, red horns, flared nostrils, and an open mouth with white fangs. He is jointed at the neck, arms, elbows, wrists and base of body. His body is painted green with blue markings, and the many-jointed tail is covered in purple fabric. The hands end in three trident shaped 'fingers'. There are two painted blue wooden wings with red stripes attached to the spine down the back of the puppet. Nylon fishing line is threaded through various places and is very tangled.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr E Hellawell in 1982.