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Mother hand puppet

1968

Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A mother figure painted rubber hand puppet by Childcraft. With her rubber arms and hands raised close to her face, the mother puppet wears a square patterned mauve dress with a white collar. She has dark brown pony-tied hair, brown eyes, and pink lips. The bottom back of her dress bears the maker’s mark [CHILDCRAFT / [copyright symbol] 1968]. Her sand colored rubber interior has three finger holes.

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2019.81.1.2

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