Miss Piggy Puppet
date: label: date made
content: 2016
name: label: maker
content: Henson, Jim
label: maker
content: Erickson, Bonnie
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Miss Piggy is a hand-rod puppet originally performed by Frank Oz and currently performed by Eric Jacobson. In a hand-rod puppet, like Miss Piggy, the performer’s dominant hand goes into the puppet’s head and operates the mouth and sometimes other facial features. The less dominant hand controls the arm rods, which are thin rods connected to the puppet’s hands. Miss Piggy is a diva pig who believes she is a superstar. She is madly in love with Kermit the Frog and is an expert in karate. Miss Piggy began as “Piggy Lee” on <i>The Tonight Show</i> in 1974 and eventually the “Lee” was dropped so as not to upset Peggy Lee. Miss Piggy then became a major character on <i>The Muppet Show</i>. This specific puppet was created for display at the National Museum of American History in 2016.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
label: See more items in
content: Jim Henson
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Muppet Studio
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3105.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3105
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3105.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puppet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric; synthetic fibers; fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 in x 16 in x 16 in; 88.9 cm x 40.64 cm x 40.64 cm