Object Details
- performer
- Henson, Jim
- Henson, Jim
- Description (Brief)
- Yorick is a purple skull hand puppet with a head made from papier-mâché. Yorick eats anything and everything and has a tube in his mouth that allowed him to swallow objects. This appetite made him a precursor to other hungry monsters created by Jim Henson such as Cookie Monster. Yorick appeared regularly on Henson’s show < i>Sam and Friends. This is the original Yorick puppet created by Jim Henson in June 1954. Sam and Friends was a five-minute show that aired on the local NBC affiliate station in Washington, D.C., WRC-TV. It featured a cast of hand puppets created by Jim Henson and his eventual wife Jane Nebel that often lip-synched to popular songs or comedy records. It aired from 1955 to 1961.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift from the Family of Jim Henson
- 1954-06
- ID Number
- 2010.0144.09
- accession number
- 2010.0144
- catalog number
- 2010.0144.09
- Object Name
- puppet
- Physical Description
- fabric (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 1/2 in x 17 in; 16.51 cm x 43.18 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Jim Henson
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Puppetry
- Television
- Television broadcasts
- Record ID
- nmah_1397164
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-3875-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
