Yorick Puppet from <i>Sam and Friends</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1954-06
name: label: performer
content: Henson, Jim
label: maker
content: Henson, Jim
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Yorick is a purple skull hand puppet with a head made from papier-mâché. Yorick eats anything and everything and has a tube in his mouth that allowed him to swallow objects. This appetite made him a precursor to other hungry monsters created by Jim Henson such as Cookie Monster. Yorick appeared regularly on Henson’s show < i>Sam and Friends</i>. This is the original Yorick puppet created by Jim Henson in June 1954. <i>Sam and Friends</i> was a five-minute show that aired on the local NBC affiliate station in Washington, D.C., WRC-TV. It featured a cast of hand puppets created by Jim Henson and his eventual wife Jane Nebel that often lip-synched to popular songs or comedy records. It aired from 1955 to 1961.
topic: label: Subject
content: Puppetry
label: Subject
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Television broadcasts
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Jim Henson
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from the Family of Jim Henson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0144.09
label: accession number
content: 2010.0144
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0144.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puppet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 17 in; 16.51 cm x 43.18 cm