Mary Lou, Transformation Figure Marionette
date: label: Date made
content: 1920-1939
name: label: maker; user
content: Slover, Alvin
label: maker; user
content: King, Florence Lorella Slover
label: user
content: Larson, James Willard
label: user
content: Larson, Joyce Dean
label: maker
content: Slover, Alvin
label: maker
content: King, Florence Lorella Slover
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Floloral wire appears to have been used for inner support of balloon.T
label: Description (Brief)
content: SLOVER HISOTRY INFO
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Theater, Puppetry
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0005.06
label: accession number
content: 2004.0005
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0005.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Puppet
label: Object Name
content: puppet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: synthetic fibers (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in x 14 in x 5 in; 63.5 cm x 35.56 cm x 12.7 cm