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Shadow puppet of a figure wearing an elaborate black, gold and red headdress. At the back of the headdress there is a red demon-like face. The black and gold elements of the headdress have scalloped edges and holes cut out of them to mimic fine metalwork. The figure’s face is in profile, facing right. He has a long black sideburn and a thin black mustache. His eyes and tongue are painted red. The figure’s skin is white. His chest is bare save for a large gold chest piece with red jewels that wraps around his neck and then extends down his torso to attach to the folds of his skirt. Around each of the figure’s upper arms and forearms, he wears gold bracelets and a gold ring on each hand. The upper arms, forearms and hands of the puppet are separate pieces of skin attached with small nails. The nails at his wrists also attach the puppet’s arms to wooden sticks, with movable joints in his arms. There is a stick attached to the front of the object and one attached to the back. The skirt is green, red, blue and gold with black stripes adorning them. The skirt wraps around his right thigh, lower than it does on his left leg. Yellow thread attaches a large dark brown stick to the middle of the puppet on the front and back side. The stick is pointed at the bottom end.
Leather rattle with wooden handle and decorative beadwork. On one end of the rattle, there are coarse dark and lighter brown hairs protruding. The hairs are wrapped into the rattle with fabric that looks similar in width and texture to medical tape. The same hair also appears to be stitched into the fabric on the underside of the rattle. The rattle is wrapped with the fabric until about half-way along the handle. After this point there are many strings of small beads wrapped around the handle. The beads are grey, white, red, green, and yellow. After the beads, the handle narrows and then extends into a bulbous leather rattle. There are small stitches around the skin section and the thinner part of the handle. There are unknown pieces of something inside the rattle, to make the noise.
Retablo of St. Marcos. The altar is rectangular, topped by a painted pediment. Two long vertical doors open on the front, and are attached to the altar by leather hinges. The doors are painted on the outside with a cross and swirled patterns, and on the inside with flowers, leaves, circles and lines. Inside the altar are two sets of plaster figures. The top set consists of four saints: St. Paul, St. Ines, John the Baptist and an unidentified saint holding a book and staff. Smaller figures stand in front of the saints and include animals and humans. In the bottom set of figures are a group of musicians, several sheep and goats, shepherds, and a woman with pottery.
Jug used for pouring chicha. The jug has a rounded body and the neck is shaped into a human-like figure. The figure has small, thin protruding legs as well as protruding arms with hands that hold two mugs and a bottle-shaped object. Around the figure’s neck is a scarf, with ends decorated with incised lines. The face is small, and topped with a wide hat with ear flaps. The top of the figure’s head is hollow and serves as the jug’s lip. A handle is connected to the jug at its shoulder and figure’s middle back. The body of the pot is covered with skin that is tied on with sinew. Sinew also wraps around the jug’s handle, and a braid of sinew spans between the handle and the figure’s neck.
Rectangular coiled cedar root basket. Each side has a pattern of two dark brown and one red-brown set of arrow-like designs done in imbrication. Strips of dark brown and red-brown bark are also woven through the top row at the rim. Two strings of hide are strung through the top coil on either side, creating long handles.
Shadow puppet, representing the character Bima, Pandhawa Prince, made of skin. The figure wears a large gold and black headdress. The headdress has decorative holes cut into it and scalloped edges to mimic fine metalwork. The figure’s flesh is dark red. His face is in profile and looks to the left. He has a long black sideburn and a small black moustache. The figure’s eyes and tongue are red. His chest is bare and has a small patch of chest hair. On each of the figure’s upper arms and forearms he wears gold bracelets. In each of his hands he holds a white spear. Each of his arms is composed of an upper arm piece, a forearm piece and a hand piece of skin. These pieces are attached to each other using small nails. His wrist joints are also attached to long wooden sticks; this results in his arms having movable joints. Tied around his waist, the figure wears a loin cloth. The fabric is red, black, grey, white, blue and green. The red, green and blue elements of the garment have black stripes on them. The black, grey and white elements of the garment are arranged in a check pattern with gold trim. The puppet’s thighs are large and bare. Black thread attaches a wide wooden stick to the middle of the puppet’s body. The stick is pointed at the bottom end.
Shadow puppet made of skin. Represents the character Kresna (Krishna). The figure has green skin exposed at its face, arms, chest, stomach and legs. He wears an elaborate gold, red, blue green and white headdress. The red and blue elements of the puppet are striped with black lines. The gold elements of the puppet have small holes through them and scalloped edges to mimic the shapes of fine metalwork. The figure’s face is in profile; it has long black sideburns and a thin curly moustache. His eyes and tongue are red. A large gold necklace hands down the figure’s chest. He also wears a gold chest piece that wraps around his torso. There are gold bracelets on each of the figure’s upper arms and wrists. On his fingers, there are gold rings. At each of the figure’s shoulder joints, elbows and wrists, there are metal nails the pieces of skin and attaching the skin of the hands to wooden sticks. One of the sticks is on the front and the other is on the back of the puppet. These allow the puppet to have movable arm joints. Wrapped around the figures waist is an elaborate skirt with red, blue, green, white and gold detailing. The fabric of the skirt also wraps around the upper left thigh of the figure. The toe and finger nails of the puppet are painted white. There are gold bracelets around each of his ankles. There is a dark brown stick which is pointed at the bottom end attached to the front and back of the puppet with yellow thread.
Doll wearing thick fur clothing. The face of the doll is made of light coloured stone, with carved eyes, nose, mouth and ears. It is enveloped by a large brown fur hood attached to a jacket that ends at the waist and has a long, narrow flap in the back that falls nearly to the knees. The coat is edged at wrists, face and bottom with white fur. The pants are made with a white and brown fur, cut decoratively at the top on both front and back and inlaid with a lighter coloured fur. Leggings of the same darker fur cover the leg from thigh to ankle and are attached by fur suspenders to the waist. Matching mitts cover the hands. Off-white hide boots tie at the ankle and have dark brown, furry soles. The doll underneath the fur appears to be covered with a canvas cloth at the back and brightly coloured fabric at wrists.