Item Information

Japanese female marionette

Marionette of elaborately dressed Japanese woman

Tentatively identified

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

DM number: P16.01

Box: 25

Japan

Brander Matthews, John Mulholland, 1925

"Japanese Marionette, 24 strings" (image), in Puppetry, a Yearbook of Puppets and Marionettes, edited by Paul McPharlin, 42. Detroit: The Inland Press, 1930; Spaulding, Jean, "Masks and Marionettes," Institute Magazine Dec. 1929: 12-13, 28-29.

Marionettes (stringed puppets)

wood

25"