35mm slide (photographic)(colour)
- Museum number
- Eu,F.T.6346
- Description
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Slide (colour); a scene from the comic Greek shadow puppet play 'Karagiosis the wedding', with the puppeteer Vangos visible in the foreground using rods to manoeuvre the shadow puppets; the character Karagiosis is visible on the right, standing outside of his hut, greeting his bride, Veziropoula, the Pasha's daughter, who is riding an elephant; Karagiosis lowers his top hat towards his bride, and is designed wearing a green jacket and green pair of trousers with red patches covering torn areas; the bride is wearing a turban, draped clothing and jewellery; Athens, Greece.
35mm slide, polyester
- Production date
- July 1969
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.50 centimetres (image)
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Height: 5 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 3.40 centimetres (image)
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Width: 5 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
- Part of a collection of 60 slides taken for Rinvolucri and given together with full explanation, and a list of the slides. Each slide bears a number relating to this list, which includes 204 slides and identifies the character or subject (see inscription). Rinvolucri also supplied a full explanation (see Eu-F.T.-6305).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1970
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Eu,F.T.6346
