Mother hand puppet: Museum Object and Cultural History
Mother hand puppet: Date: 1968. Created by: Childcraft, American. Type: hand puppets.
The object in the museum catalogue
A mother figure painted rubber hand puppet by Childcraft. With her rubber arms and hands raised close to her face, the mother puppet wears a square patterned mauve dress with a white collar. She has dark brown pony-tied hair, brown eyes, and pink lips. The bottom back of her dress bears the maker’s mark [CHILDCRAFT / [copyright symbol] 1968]. Her sand colored rubber interior has three finger holes.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1968
- Created by: Childcraft, American
- Type: hand puppets
- Type: educational toys
- Medium: rubber and paint
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 9 1/16 × 5 1/2 × 2 13/16 in. (23 × 14 × 7.1 cm)
- Place used: Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Communication
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Identity
- Topic: Mental health
- Topic: Play
- Object number: 2019.81.1.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Janice Elzey & Steve Schnabl
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Childraft 1968 Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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