Stringed puppet depicting a male character, a geomancer, with a brown face and a black beard. The puppet is wearing a brown damask silk robe with metallic thread embroidery forming the eight trigrams and other symbols. Wooden feet, hands and head covered in plaster, decorated with polychrome pigment. Various strings attached to a wooden suspension bar.
Part of The Louise Tythacott Collection . The Louise Tythacott Collection was compiled as the result of intensive fieldwork over several years in South China and Hong Kong. Ms Tythacott is a Chinese-speaking anthropologist and a museum curator, and was Curator of Ethnography at Liverpool Museum, who was particularly fortunate in developing contacts during the course of her work. Ms Tythacott has also made collections for the Museum of Mankind.
