Horse Marionette
name: label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
label: Region
content: Asia & Middle East Region
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: 20th century
label: Notes
content: This marionette of a horse is from the state of Rajasthan in Western India for use in Kathputli, traditional string puppet theater. The horse is black with a yellow saddle and stands approximately 44 cm tall. The body of the marionette is fashioned from a wooden frame, padded with cotton and covered with a synthetic fabric. The body of the horse is wrapped with decorative silver fringed metallic ribbon, the head is covered in a gold metallic ribbon threaded with pink cotton string. A wide band of gold metallic ribbon extends down the neck and chest of the horse from just below the jaw to the space between the two front legs. The controlling strings are attached in two places, at the base of the tail and top of the head.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Dec 2020
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Asia, India
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
culture: label: Culture
content: Rajasthani
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO400519-DSP
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
physicalDescription: label: Material
content: Wood, Cotton, Synthetic Fabric, Metal