Marionette Head

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Marionette Head

Artist: Attributed to Rosete Aranda (Mexican, n.d.)

Date: 19th century

Medium: Polychromed wood, wool, glass

Dimensions:

h. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); w. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); d. 3 in. (7.6 cm)

Arte del Pueblo (San Antonio Museum of Art), 1988-89.

Credit Line: Purchased with Epcot Funds, Walt Disney Co.

Object number: 88.47.5

Label Text

Marionettes and puppets were very popular during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and were often used for religious and political instruction, as well as for simple entertainment. These rare heads were made by the late Rosete Aranda, a legndary nineteenth century puppet-maker from Puebla. (Marion Oettinger, 1998)

Not on view

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Marionette Head

Marionette Head