Oedipus (sighted) marionette

For production of Oedipus Rex presented by the League of Composers and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1931.

Conservation assessment: FRAGILE; please limit handling. Requires two people to move, open and close the box. If the box is to be tilted while moving, keep the head end up. The puppet is secured to the base. The materials are fragile and in places friable. Do not remove the puppet from the box without assistance of a conservator.

Robert Edmond Jones, designer

Remo Bufano, maker

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

1931

DM number: P47.01

Box: 57

United States

Cooper Union Museum (Remo Bufano Studios, Inc.), 1953

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Marionettes (stringed puppets)

cloth, wood, papier mache

96"