Stringed puppet depicting a female figure, possibly a servant, with black hair and a bead headdress. The puppet is wearing a red costume decorated with polychrome and metallic thread embroidery forming floral sprays. Wooden feet, hands and head covered in plaster, decorated with polychrome pigment. The puppet is also wearing bound foot shoes. Various strings attached to a wooden suspension bar.
Part of The Louise Tythacott Collection . The Louise Tythacott Collection was compiled as the result of intensive fieldwork over several years in South China and Hong Kong. Ms Tythacott is a Chinese-speaking anthropologist and a museum curator, and was Curator of Ethnography at Liverpool Museum, who was particularly fortunate in developing contacts during the course of her work. Ms Tythacott has also made collections for the Museum of Mankind.
