To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:22:22 GMT
Subject: [Puptcrit] Museum of Civilisation Puppet collection online


Mathieu--

The Canadian Museum of Civilisation webpages of the puppet collection are tricky to navigate, as you say, but I did find the Tatterman Marioettes' "elf" which is one of many gnome characters used at the 1939 New York World's Fair show for General Electric, entitled "Mrs Cinderella".
The gnome, actually a kind of villain or gremlin, was opposed by good elves (Detroit Institute of Arts has a "good"one, and so do we), but the meany gnomes are more interesting. Quite a few of them were sold at a National Puppetry Festival near St Louis by Rod Young on behalf of Ruth Duncan, so I'd guess the one in the Canadian Museum went to Ontario after that Puppet Festival. Some others went to Texas with the Kline Sisters.

I was surprised that the Civilisation Museum does not indicate the sizes of the puppets on the webpages.

Thanks for the link.

ALAN COOK
International Puppetry Museum

www.puppetrymuseum.org

We have Cinderella and the Prince from that show. Last year they were exhibited at the Craft & Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. Poor Cinderella lost her hands before we got her---likely they were used on a puppet in a later Tatterman production "to save time". The same fate befell their young Peer Gynt marionette.

I like Herbert Brss WITCH hand puppet ---areal classic from Germany in The Civ Museum Collection. Eventually I'll try to see all ther stuff they have online.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Ren?
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:40 PM
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] Puppet collection online

The Canadian Museum of Civilisation has just updated its online gallery 
featuring its puppet collection (a big part of it donated by the Ontario 
Puppetry Association).
The navigation of it is a bit of a test in itself, due to the absence of a 
main thumbnail gallery or a section-specific search box, but the documents 
themselves are worth the work.
Each type of puppet has its own scrolling thumbnail gallery. Click on it to 
see the pics and lots of information about the featured puppet.

To make your browsing easier, here's a direct link to the index, which seems 
to be the easiest way to see the puppets. Open each link as a new "tab" in 
your browser, to be able to easily come back to the index every time.
http://theatre.civilization.ca/narratives/details.php?language=english&lvlInd=1


The actual homepage of the collection:
http://theatre.civilization.ca/narratives/details.php?language=english 

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