Mother hand puppet
date: label: Date
content: 1968
name: label: Created by
content: Childcraft, American
notes: label: Caption
content: Created for use by children’s counselors and therapists, this hand puppet is part of a set that depicts two five-person family units; one family is African American while the other is Caucasian. Being able to use puppets that reflect a child’s personal race and gender is important for this kind of therapy to be successful. It is also significant for children’s self-esteem and learning cues that the African American dolls show a complete nuclear family unit, wearing clothes that communicate middle class respectability.
label: Description
content: A mother figure painted rubber hand puppet by Childcraft. With her rubber arms and hands raised close to her face, the mother puppet wears a square patterned mauve dress with a white collar. She has dark brown pony-tied hair, brown eyes, and pink lips. The bottom back of her dress bears the maker’s mark [CHILDCRAFT / [copyright symbol] 1968]. Her sand colored rubber interior has three finger holes.
place: label: Place used
content: Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Children
label: Topic
content: Communication
label: Topic
content: Education
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: Mental health
label: Topic
content: Play
label: Topic
content: Race relations
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Tools and Equipment
label: Classification
content: Toys and Games
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Janice Elzey & Steve Schnabl
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2019.81.1.2
objectType: label: Type
content: hand puppets
label: Type
content: educational toys
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Childraft 1968
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: rubber and paint
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 9 1/16 × 5 1/2 × 2 13/16 in. (23 × 14 × 7.1 cm)