35mm slide (photographic) (colour)

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35mm slide (photographic)(colour)

Object Type
Museum number: Eu,F.T.6042
Description: Slide (colour); Maria the Cook, a Greek shadow puppet, designed with a joint at the waist for movement, and a hole on her shoulder for the karagiosopecte (puppeteer) to manoeuvre the character; her eye is missing; she is wearing a white cloth headscarf ties with a pink/red ribbon, a gold earring, a pink/red dress with a white apron, and shoes; Athens, Greece. 35mm slide, polyester
Producer name
Production date: May 1970
Production place: Photographed in: Athens
Excavator/field collector
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 3.50 centimetres (image); Height: 5 centimetres (mount); Width: 2.50 centimetres (image); Width: 5 centimetres (mount)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Contextualisation: This shadow puppet character would have been used in a Karagiosis (Greek shadow theatre) performance. Condition of shadow puppet: The pupil of the eye of the puppet is missing.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: puppetry; costume/clothing; cook
Associated names: Associated with: Antonis Mollas (?); Named in inscription & portrayed: Maria the Cook
Associated places: Associated with: Athens
Associated ethnic name
Acquisition date: 1970
Acquisition notes: Collection of 35mm slides taken on a trip to Greece by Shelagh Weir, of Greek shadow puppets in the private collection of Dimitris Mollas.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Eu,F.T.6042