Object Details
maker; user
Slover, Alvin
user
King, Florence Lorella Slover
associated institution
Western Sugar Refinery
user
Larson, James Willard
Larson, Joyce Dean
maker
Slover, Alvin
King, Florence Lorella Slover
Description (Brief)
This santa marionette is one of 15 puppets we received from the Slover-King-Larson family. These puppets for the Slover Flossy [Florence King] and Minnie [Louella], playing vaudeville shows to newly populated towns in the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho and Oregon. Florence King wrote to her cousin, Joyce Larson, November 13, 1974 (p.2), that she restrung her marionettes annually with heavy linen shoemaker's thread because constant performances wore out or broke the strings, but this one never got restrung like the others and just became an annual family holiday decoration in the Slover-King-Larson households. She was reluctant to part with him, writing in the same letter (p. 1), that though she had sold all of the other Slover Marionettes after retirement in 1970, "I have the 12th one here that I want to keep. (Dressed like Santa Claus). Some day Mary [donor] can have that."
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
1920-1960
ID Number
2004.0005.11
accession number
2004.0005
catalog number
2004.0005.11
Object Name
Puppet
puppet
Physical Description
wood (overall material)
paint (overall material)
cotton (overall material)
plastic (overall material)
metal (overall material)
glass (overall material)
adhesive tape (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 25 1/2 in x 12 in x 6 1/2 in; 64.77 cm x 30.48 cm x 16.51 cm
place made
United States
See more items in
Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Theater, Puppetry
Holidays and Celebrations, general
Christmas
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1253472