Male hand puppet with bicorne hat

Conservation assessment: DO NOT HANDLE

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

DM number: P09.08

Box: 11

France

Purchased by Brander Matthews in Paris, 1867

"Marionettes in Museums of the United States," in Puppetry, a Yearbook of Puppets and Marionettes. Edited by Paul McPharlin, 23-28. Detroit: The Inland Press, 1930.; "Set of Puppets Acquired in Paris, 1867, by Brander Matthews when he was sixteen" (image), in Puppetry, a Yearbook of Puppets and Marionettes, edited by Paul McPharlin, 54. Detroit: The Inland Press, 1930.; Spaulding, Jean, "Masks and Marionettes," Institute Magazine Dec. 1929: 12-13, 28-29.; Bell, John. "Puppets and 'The Iconography of Drama': The Brander Matthews Collection at Columbia University." in American Puppetry. Edited by Phyllis T. Dircks, 105-117. New York: McFarland and Company, 2004.

Hand puppets

papier mache

12"