GLOVE PUPPET, Monk

Appears to be commercially made . Plastic finish to paint work. Head - composition, moulded to form features. Eyes brown, mouth red, nostrils red, hair and eyebrows white with a few grey hairs. Face painted pink. Top of head is bald, hair left on sides and back. Body - Formed by clothes, composition hands. Clothes - Brown monks robe with wide sleeves and long pointed hood. Hood is folded at top edge to form a band. Apricot coloured cord around waist sewn at back and tied in a knot at the front. White sleeves or arms issue from the ends of the sleeves and are attached to the hands. The entire collection of marionettes and puppets, which includes 31 marionettes, 26 hand puppets (glove and rod), 20 puppet heads, 9 hand sticks, 3 stick dolls and a travelling stage, were used, and many were made, by Miss Frances Rogers. Miss Rogers, born on 19 Oct 1904, went to teacher's college in 1930 and joined the Education Department of WA in 1934. Between 1934 and her retirement in 1967, she taught at various country schools, took special classed for deaf and dumb children in Mosman Park, and classes for mentally and physically disabled children in Leederville. She used the puppets as teaching aids for the disabled children.

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