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String PuppetEh160 a-b

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet: head with purple dyed plant fibre for hair (part b) fits into body clothed in multicoloured shirt and pants (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. The figure is clothed in a beaded v-neck shirt with long pink sleeves and loose fitting pants with cinched waist and ankles; shirt is tucked into a black and gold beaded belt. Figure's face is painted yellow with black eyebrows, eyes, protruding ears, a red mouth and a fibrous black moustache; figure wears a head wrap made from pink, green and grey floral fabric. Both hands are open, with painted pink skin and white nails. Feet are shod in wooden slippers with curled toes. Puppet is attached to thin white cords tied to wooden sticks.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, fibre, paint and dye
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh164 a-b

Three-dimensional female humanoid puppet (Tamil dancer character): head with headdress (part b) fits into body clothed in a skirt and shirt (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. Headdress is black with geometric shapes of silver foil paper pressed onto the surface; blue and grey gauzy material is gathered at the front of the headdress and trails from the back. The figure is clothed in a midriff-baring black vest with pink sleeves; silver metallic material covers the breasts and forms a sort of neck ruff. The skirt is a full- length, multicoloured garment with a purple v-shaped panel and three circular appliqués made form silver metallic material at the front. Figure's face is a rosy pink colour with red lips, black eyebrows, a black bindi and a black beauty mark on the chin; figure wears dangling earrings of white beads and silver foil. Hair is purple dyed plant fibre tied into a long braid at the back. The index finger and thumb on both hands are joined in a circle and attached to the trailing ends of the gauzy material cascading from the back of the headdress. Feet are bare with white toenails. Puppet is attached to thin black cords tied to wooden sticks.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, fibre, paint and dye
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh144 a-b

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet (politician character): head (part b) fits into body with orange tunic and red pants (part a). The figure is wearing brown corduroy shoes on his feet, and his left foot and its shoe (part c) have become detached from the body. The body has jointed arms and legs. The figure has dark purple-grey plant fibre hair and moustache. The tunic has black plastic and gold cardboard buttons, as well as a gold cardboard and black corduroy mock breast pocket.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, fibre and paint
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh166 a-b

Three-dimensional male puppet representing the father of a farmer family. Head with purple dyed plant fibre for hair (part b) fits into body clothed in a multicoloured skirt and shirt (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. The figure is clothed in a yellow, black and brown striped shirt over long pink sleeves and a full-length skirt; a pink and blue scarf is knotted around the neck. Figure's face is a yellow-brown colour with painted black eyebrows, large eyes, protruding ears, an open red mouth with prominent white teeth, and two carved depressions on each cheek. The right hand is closed; the left hand is open. Feet are bare with white toenails. Puppet is attached to thin black cords tied to wooden sticks.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, fibre, paint and dye
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh165 a-b

Three-dimensional female humanoid puppet: head with yellow beaded and sequined headdress (part b) fits into body with bodice and skirt (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. Hair is dark blue dyed twine. The head is decorated with an orange lace ribbon at the ahirline, and a purply-pink lace floral design ribbon running from forehead to headdress. Red ribbon frill at neck. Bodice is yellow with beaded and sequined design and metallic gold and silver ribbon across chest. Sleeves are multicoloured sythetic material puffed at shoulders and gathered at elbows. The same material forms an underskirt with a semi-transparent black overskirt that has blue and silver embroidered flowers. The figure is also wearing a purple, orange, yellow and off-white floral print shawl, which she holds in each hand.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, synthetic fibre ? and paint
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh142 a-c

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet (king character): head with paper crown (part b) fits into body clothed in a skirt and shirt (part a), and necklace (part c) fits around neck. The body has jointed arms and legs. Gauzy material with metallic embroidery drapes from shoulders. The figure is clothed in a semi-transparent, multicoloured floral patterned skirt, and a red and gold shirt. His hair is blue dyed plant fibre, knotted at the top of his head, and his moustache is the same material dyed purple-blue. The figure's right hand is clasped, and his left hand has the index and middle finger extended, with the rest folded.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, synthetic fibre and paint
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh167 a-b

Three-dimensional female humanoid puppet (Servant girl character): head (part b) fits into body clothed in a shirt and skirt (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. The shirt is made of off-white fabric with a brown and dark blue cross pattern on the bodice, and sleeves that have the same pattern on the bottom half and a band of smaller dark blue crescents with slightly larger brown crescents on the top half. The skirt has a floral pattern in orange, red, pink, off-white and black. Dyed purple-grey plant fibre represents hair. The figure's right hand is clasped, and the left hand is flat.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, fibre and paint
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh147 a-b

Three-dimensional male humanoid puppet (jester character): head with pointed cap (part b) fits into body with tunic and pants (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs. The face is painted light brown, and the arms and legs are painted dark orange-pink. The cap is made of orange, pink, red, blue and black floral print fabric, and the tunic and pants are made from green, red, and off-white patterned material with a grid and flower motif. The figure's shoes are painted black.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, cotton fibre ? and paint
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh161 a-b

Male puppet figure: detachable head (part b) has a rod that extends down from the neck and fits into a socket in the top of the torso of the body (part a). The figure is wearing a green and off-white floral print shirt, an off-white fabric skirt, and off-white pants underneath the skirt with horizontal green, grey and pink lines. The figure's legs have been wrapped in newspaper (horse racing results ?), and the figure has been blindfolded with a strip of green, blue, red and off-white fabric.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, cotton fibre and paint
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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String PuppetEh146 a-b

Three-dimensional female puppet representing the daughter of a farmer family. Head (part b) fits into body clothed in shirt and skirt (part a). The body has jointed arms and legs, and plant fibre that has been dyed blue-green represents the hair. The figure is also wearing one earring on her right ear, and her feet are reversed. Skirt is a yellow, pink and green floral print on a geometric square and grid patterned blue background. Shirt is purple with white dots grouped in circles.

Culture
Sinhalese
Material
wood, cotton fibre ? and paint
Made in
Galle, Sri Lanka
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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