Pilgrim Man Marionette
name: label: user
content: Rollins, Hazelle H.
label: maker
content: Rollins, Hazelle H.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One of a pair of marionettes dressed like Pilgrims which premiered in 1949 on a Kansas City Missouri television station (KCTV) in 1949. Hazelle Rolllins used the pair for several years for Thanksgiving programs that featured the art of puppetry. The male pilgrim is dressed in gray, black, and white suit and hat, has white wooden legs with black plastic shoes, and is paired with a female pilgrim (1980.0910.04).
label: Description (Brief)
content: Created by Hazelle Hedges Rollins in the late 1930s. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Hazelle Rollins was a puppeteer who trained with Tony Sarg and is the creator of over 300 string, hand, and finger puppets. She holds four patents in the puppetry field, including the airplane control marionette that is easy to manipulate. By 1975, Hazelle Inc was the world's largest exclusive manufacturer of marionettes, hand, and finger puppets.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Kansas City
topic: label: general subject association
content: Puppetry
label: general subject association
content: Radio and television broadcasting
label: Subject
content: Television broadcasts
label: Subject
content: Consumerism
label: depicted
content: Pilgrims
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Puppets
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content: Advertising
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Anne W. and John W. Rollins, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0910.03
label: accession number
content: 1980.0910
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0910.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puppet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: fabric (overall material)
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content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: string (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 5 1/2 in; 40.64 cm x 13.97 cm