Shadow Puppet

Item number 848/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Two-dimensional figure of a person wearing regalia on legs, around waist, at chest, and on head; shoulders and elbows are articulated; arms are controlled by horn rods attached at one end to the hands. Another darker, horn rod has been split down most of length and height of puppet is contained between the two sides which follow line of the body and curl up around ear and through the hair. Regalia is in muted tones of gold, green, white, blue, and red and has detailed cutouts to resemble lattice; face is painted black with red detail; rest of skin is gold; hair is black and has many arc cutouts to resemble curly hair. Label on red space between the two feet says, "GATUTKATJA."