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Description: | Glove puppet representing Nigora, a beautiful girl who always stays at home to help her mother. A gourd head puppet with painted features: wide eyes with long lashes; a smiling mouth; long black plaits; rosy cheeks; one eyebrow; and a kiss curl. She wears an ikat dress made of synthetic fabric, in red, white, black, green and yellow. The cuffs of the dress are tablet woven. Dressed in a round hat (DOPPI) with a flat, maroon crown, and a tablet-woven base in black, orange, purple, and white. A pair of leaf-shaped, flat metal earrings is worn. The choker is tablet woven. Hands are flat, covered in beige cloth. The puppet is mounted on a plain wooden rod.
The stand for the puppet is probably poplar. It is a wooden square with stylised leaves inscribed on upper and lower edges. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | wood paper ikat dyeing textile gourd glove puppets metal stands papier-mché Family and Home wool Uzbek pigment | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-113276 |
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