Red Fraggle Puppet
date: label: date made
content: 1980s
name: label: performer
content: Prell, Karen
label: maker
content: Henson, Jim
label: designer
content: Frith, Michael
label: builder
content: Krewson, Rollie
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Red Fraggle is a hand-rod puppet performed by Karen Prell on the television show <i>Fraggle Rock</i>. In a hand-rod puppet, like Red, 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. Red is adventurous and energetic, and she loves to swim. It is her job to keep the Fraggle Rock pool clean. She is one of the five main Fraggles on the children’s program <i>Fraggle Rock</i> created by Jim Henson that aired for five seasons on HBO from 1983 to 1987. Henson created the Fraggle world as one where different types of creatures lived together in a world where they were interconnected and important to one another. From the beginning, the show was designed to be easily adaptable to different cultures, which generally led to each country having its own human character, such as Doc in the American version, with the same Fraggle scenes dubbed in local languages.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Children's television programs
label: Subject
content: Puppetry
label: Subject
content: Television
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Jim Henson
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Family of Jim Henson: Lisa Henson, Cheryl Henson, Brian Henson, John Henson and Heather Henson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0101.16
label: accession number
content: 2013.0101
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0101.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puppet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: foam (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 in x 16 in x 7 in; 66.04 cm x 40.64 cm x 17.78 cm