Item Information

Orlando rod puppet

Sicilian rod puppet operated from above. Face, hands, feet of painted wood or plaster. Armor, shield, sword, scabbard of unpainted tin. Skirt of off-white muslin with metallic tape trim. Tin bird atop helmet. Cross-eyed.

Scholar suggests Palermo

Conservation assessment: Stable

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

1875-1900

DM number: P12.01

Box: 27

Italy

Sicily, 1927

"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.

Rod puppets

papier mache, metal

11.5" (19")