35mm slide (photographic)(colour)
- Museum number
- Eu,F.T.6043
- Description
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Slide (colour); Karagiosis, a Greek shadow puppet, designed with a joint at the waist, knees, hand and four joints along an extended arm for movement; Karagiosis with a hooked shaped nose, wearing a green and red jacket and pair of trousers, and barefoot; Athens, Greece.
35mm slide, polyester
- Production date
- May 1970
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.50 centimetres (image)
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Height: 5 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 2.50 centimetres (image)
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Width: 5 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Contextualisation: This shadow puppet character would have been used in a Karagiosis (Greek shadow theatre) performance.
Condition of shadow puppet: In poor condition, despite the tradition of karagiosopectes (puppeteers) replacing and/or mending sections of shadow puppets. A mixture of new and rusted metal pins are visible around the neck, knees, and arm joints of the puppet. The hand on the extended arm of the puppet is broken off (missing?). The four sections of the extended arm have been attached temporarily(?) to the main body using string.
Design of Shadow Puppet: The white of the eye of the shadow puppet, has been purposefully cut away by Mollas to enhance the effects of the shadow puppet being lit behind the white screen.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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.6043