Socko Hand Puppet
name: label: maker
content: Patton, Harry J.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Handmade hand puppet known as Socko. Lower body consists of black cloth with glove sewn inside for puppeteer's hand. Face and hands are stuffed nylon stocking sewn into facial and hand characteristics. Brown striped sweater covers arms and upper torso. Eyes are wood buttons. Hair consists of brown thread, and mouth of red thread.
label: Description (Brief)
content: "Socko" was the perfect remedy used for impatient squirming children. As a child photographer, Harry Patton used these puppets in order to capture children's attention so that he could take their pictures from 1947 to 1967. Made of cloth bodies, nylon face and hands, thread hair, and button eyes, these puppets are a prime example of how simple materials can successfully bridge the adult and child worlds. All four of these puppets were made by Lesta Davis Patton for her three grandsons Chris, Derek, and Kevin Patton.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Cockeysville
topic: label: Subject
content: Puppetry
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Puppets
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry J. Patton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0186.01
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0186.01
label: accession number
content: 1994.0186
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puppet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: beige (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 13 in x 2 in; 53.34 cm x 33.02 cm x 5.08 cm