Anansi Company : a collection of thirteen hand-made wire and card rod-puppets animated in colour and verse

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Ronald King, Roy Fischer. 1991. Anansi Company : A Collection of Thirteen Hand-Made Wire and Card Rod-Puppets Animated in Colour and Verse. Wire, card, paper. Illustration Research Archive. Circle Press, Re-Drawn: Pictures, Plots & Portrayals from Special Collections, accessed March 28, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/redrawn/item/48031

Descriptive Title: Anansi Company : a collection of thirteen hand-made wire and card rod-puppets animated in colour and verse
Creator: Ronald King, Roy Fischer
Item Description: A set of thirteen hand-made wire and paper engineered puppets, representing the animal characters featured in many Anansi stories. They accompany verses of Anansi's stories, written as they may have been told orally and in first person.

Anansi folklore originated in Ghana, then traveling to the Caribbean via the transatlantic Slave Trade. This collection is based on the Anansi tales of Jamaica.
Publisher: Circle Press
Date: 1992
Volume/Issue: no. 35
Repository: Illustration Research Archive
Call Number: GR121.J2 K56
Format: See all items with this value artists' books (books)
Medium: Wire, card, paper
Subject: See all items with this value folk tales

Item sets: Re-Drawn: Pictures, Plots & Portrayals from Special Collections, MFA Exhibition Spring 2024

Site pages: The Stories that Shape Us by Sarah Hawkes

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