Mary Lou, Transformation Figure Marionette
Mary Lou, Transformation Figure Marionette
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- Description (Brief)
- This marionette, created by the Slover family, is named Mary Lou the transformer who changes from a singer to a hot air balloon. Mary Lou who resembles a doll rather than a puppet, is made using a hard plastic molded head and arms and her torso is stuffed with muslin. Mary Lou's face, arms and hands have been hand painted and she wears a voluminous pink satin dress with a matching cap that covers ringlets of blond human hair.
- Worked with a three bar control and thirteen strings 3-bar control; 13 strings; the skirt, when pulled by strings, converts into a bright pink hot air balloon with metallic gold yarns in a diamond pattern and has a blue foil paper basket ccontaigning a celluloid kewpie doll. In the Slover's production, Zubby Hagg the Witch (2004.0005.05) turns Mary Lou into a baby who floats away in a hot air baloon.
- Floloral wire appears to have been used for inner support of balloon.T
- SLOVER HISOTRY INFO
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Puppet
- puppet
- Date made
- 1920-1939
- maker; user
- Slover, Alvin
- King, Florence Lorella Slover
- user
- Larson, James Willard
- Larson, Joyce Dean
- maker
- Slover, Alvin
- King, Florence Lorella Slover
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- synthetic fibers (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- wool (overall material)
- cotton (overall material)
- linen (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 25 in x 14 in x 5 in; 63.5 cm x 35.56 cm x 12.7 cm
- ID Number
- 2004.0005.06
- accession number
- 2004.0005
- catalog number
- 2004.0005.06
- subject
- Theater, Puppetry
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Entertainment
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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