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Description: | A ‘peg’ doll or finger puppet. A woman in a maroon dress and CHYRPY (shawl) whose features have been sewn on to a white cloth face in black wool. The dress has horizontal stripes in yellow, dark brown and grey around the skirt. A large purple bib has several motifs sewn onto it: ram’s face ‘masks’; rectangular checks and scrolls in white, orange and maroon; all speckled with golden tinsel. The CHYRPY over the head and shoulders repeats the bib motifs. Under the CHYRPY is a maroon headscarf with diagonal stripes in yellow and grey, and white and yellow spots. The puppet is of coarse cotton cloth and is mounted on a stick wrapped in white cloth. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | wood Family and Home Turkmen dolls (pastimes: toys) textile finger puppets | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-113310 |
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