As I’ve mentioned before, our Mr. Punch started his antics as a marionette until “professors” concluded that glove puppets were easier to transport and manipulate. Marionettes are quite complicated and it takes a skilled puppeteer to manage them gracefully. There’s a certain elegance about a marionette.
These antique puppets show some of the cleverness and artistry that went into Victorian stringed puppets. They’re rather lovely. As much as I love puppets, I have to say that the “Grand Turk” creeps me out just the tiniest bit. But, I love it nonetheless.
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Very cute. Butyou're right about the limb-throwing Grand Turk. Odd.
2 comments:
Very cute. Butyou're right about the limb-throwing Grand Turk. Odd.
And, he knocked his own head off!
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