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(THEATRE.)
A Black Marionette.
Marionette, 21 inches high with articulated
limbs as well as a movable mouth; some damage to one hand and the other, holding his top
hat, is separated. The head is carved from a piece of wood and painted. He is elaborately
dressed in a white and red pinstriped tuxedo with tails, purple velvet vest and matching
hat.S
HOULD BE SEEN
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Np, circa 1900
[1,500/2,500]
A beautiful, hand made marionette, wonderfully dressed with the original wooden ìcontrol,î the
strings of which appear to have been replaced. This rare turn of the century piece needs exten-
sive conservation, but we thought it important enough that it merited inclusion.
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548
549
548
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(THEATRE.) JONES, LEROI
[aka AMIRI BARAKA.]
Slave Ship.
Poster, 22 x 15 inches.
[Seattle, circa 1970],
[600/800]
Leroi Jonesí (Amiri Baraka)ís play ìSlave
Shipî is both historical and historic in that it
gave white audiences a chance to see black the-
atre as they had never before seen it. Slave
Ship: A Historical Pageant, a one-act play was
first performed and produced by The Spirit
House Movers in Newark, New Jersey in
1967. It had first appeared in the Negro
Digest in the April theater special issue of the
same year. In a concurrent article titled, ìWhat
the Arts Need Now,î published in the same
issue, Jones argued that plays by black writers
should ìShow the chains. Let them see the
chains as object and subject, and let them see
the chains fall away.î
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