In European history the marionette represents the most advanced type of puppet it is capable of imitating almost every human or animal gesture. Distinctive forms of marionette control are found in India: in Rajasthan a single string passes from the puppet’s head over the manipulator’s hand and down to the puppet’s waist (a second loop of string is sometimes used to control the arms) in southern India there are marionettes whose weight is supported by strings attached to a ring on the manipulator’s head, rods controlling the hands.
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In Sicily there is an iron rod to the head, another rod to the sword arm, and a string to the other arm the legs hang free and a distinctive walking gait is imparted to the figures by a twisting and swinging of the main rod in Antwerp, Belgium, there are just rods to the head and to one arm in Liège there are no hand rods at all, merely one rod to the head. Before that time, the control of marionettes seems to have been by a stout wire to the crown of the head, with subsidiary strings to the hands and feet even more primitive methods of control may still be observed in certain traditional folk theatres. The string marionette does not seem to have been fully developed until the mid-19th century, when the English marionettist Thomas Holden created a sensation with his ingenious figures and was followed by many imitators. Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum
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