Turkish shadow puppet of trees

Part of a set of Karagheuz puppets.

Conservation assessment: Stable; objects are in good condition, but should be left in their individual folders if possible

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

1800-1899

DM number: P13.09

Box: 23

Turkey

Brander Matthews, with others, c.1925

"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.; 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.

Shadow puppets

leather

6.5"