Cast of Characters

The Crippled Boy / CB / The Boy

15 × 8 × 8, including permanent base
Wood
Static figure with twig on nose
(This is the story’s missing protagonist and the first piece completed for the project)

Cat V

12 × 8 × 7
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects over stainless steel armature
(Catlike head in hound’s-tooth pants with pack on back)

Pombolino or Pom

7 × 6 × 5
Case measures 23 × 20 × 10
Wood, glass eyes, and found objects
(Small round-bellied figure with floppy leather ears)

Mr. R

16 × 6 × 4
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects over stainless steel armature
(Main character with tall ears in the library setting with monkey)

Pere Jules

23 × 7 × 7
Wood, fabric, leather, and found objects over stainless steel armature
(Figure in blue with leather apron, oar, lantern, and topsy-turvy head)

Narrator / Makers Twin Hand, also known as Gleyot’s Mate

18 × 10 × 10
Wood and found objects
(Large mechanical left hand—white)

Argus

21 × 9 × 7
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects over stainless steel armature
(Tall figure in hundred-eye coat)

Mechanical Head

22 × 17 × 14,z including case
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects
(Mechanized head in scientific “specimen” case)

D’Artand or Petit Mort with Hare Relief

Carving on easel
16 × 10 × 12, including attached bases
Wood, glass eyes, and found objects
(Skeleton-like figure with torch)

Tottentanzer 1: Scratch’s Cousin Ingmar

11 × 3 × 2
Wood, fabric, and glass eyes
(Tall Devil)

Tottentanzer 2: Pip

8 × 3 × 2
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects
(Appears with bed—IV on coat)

CB Miniature Skeleton Version:

CB Before Birth and After Death
3½ × 1½ × 1½
Case measures 23 × 20 × 10
Wood (Miniature wooden skeleton)

O–Man

24 × 20 × 20, including attached base
Wood, glass eyes, and found objects
(Figure with “Telescope” on round base with planets)

Scratch

14 × 12 × 15, including attached base
Wood, faux fur and feathers, gypsum, bronze, and
found objects
(Devil-like figure in faux animal skin on mechanized
base)

Hand of the Maker

11 × 6 × 6, including base and bell jar
Wood, glass, and found objects
(Small articulated hand mounted in bell jar)

The Crippled Boy Old / CBO

32 × 9 × 16 including attached base
Wood, wire, cord, and found objects
(Puppet-like figure on long base with string support
armature extended above)

Narrator/Maker’s Hand, also known as Gleyot

23 × 13 × 13
Wood, wire, cord, and lead
(Large, mechanical right hand—brown)

Tottentanzer 3: The Nautician

7 × 3 × 2
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects
(Also, Ahab or The Little Steersman—VI on coat)

Tottentanzer 4: Wag

7 × 3 × 2
Wood, glass eyes, and found objects
(In red coat with blue pants—no number on coat)

Tottentanzer 5: St. M

8 × 3 × 2
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects
(Bearded with divided head—II on coat)

Tottentanzer 6: Wad

7 × 3 × 2
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects
(Demure figure with box on head—no number
on coat)

Tottentanzer 7: Bucket

8 × 3 × 2
Wood, fabric, glass eye, and found objects
(One-eyed monkey standing in a bucket—I on coat)

Tottentanzer 8: Ashbutton

7 × 3 × 2
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, gold leaf, and found objects
(Gold sailor hat—X on coat)

Tottentanzer 9: Fr. Anpheme

8 × 3 × 2
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects
(Russian ring hat—XI on coat)

Tottentanzer 10: Doctor Subtilis

8 × 3 × 2
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects
(Blue eyes and wired-on nose—VIII on coat)

Tottentanzer 11: Baffle

8 × 3 × 2
Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects
(Megaphone in mouth—III on coat)

Tottentanzer 12: Deus Sod

9 × 6 × 7
Wood and hand-colored bronze
(Upper torso of figure with raised arm in wooden alcove)

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