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Shadow Puppet1568/3

Gareng shadow puppet character. Two dimensional, tall, thin man with articulated shoulders and elbows; arms have rods of horn from hands; another long, horn rod has central split and goes up height of puppet on both sides. Man is of a translucent skin with opaque painted decorations of shoes, bracelets, skirt, necklace, earrings, and facial features. Decorations are painted on both sides. Skirt is of a black and gold triangle design with red outlines; waist has a row of red and green alternating triangles above a row of green and gold triangles; fringe is in orange, blue, and white; another section of edging is orange and white with a gold vine design along it. Small tuft of dark hair protrudes upwards from back of head.

Culture
Javanese
Material
water buffalo skin, hair, paint and water buffalo horn
Made in
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shadow Puppet1568/2

Wayang kulit shadow puppet from Ramayana series: Kalamarica character. Two-dimensional figure with articulated shoulders and elbows; has a man-like body and a vibrant pink face with long, bumpy nose, small beard, and three fangs. Rest of skin is painted gold; clothing at legs is red with gold and white checkered diamond patterns; clothing at waist is a cloth with gold green and pink edging in back and blue, white and orange at front. Also at waist is a sword with a bird-shaped hilt in a yellow and beige scabbard. A decoration with gold ground and floral motif runs from side of head down to shoulder. There are bands at wrists and biceps in pink and blue at ankles. A sash in orange, yellow, pink and white goes around neck and down front. The arms are controlled by horn rods that are attacked to the hands; another horn rod is split down the middle and has height of the puppet between its two sides.

Culture
Javanese
Material
water buffalo skin, metal ?, paint and water buffalo horn
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shadow Puppet1374/81

Shadow puppet of male figure with gold face in profile. Represents the character Arjuna, Pandhawa Prince. Long neck with six black lines, projecting out from body. Long nose, open mouth with three teeth. Hair tied into curved plait that joins at top of head with two purple, white, green, gold, yellow and red attachments. Skirt is gold and brightly coloured with bird motif, torso is bare. Hair and skirt finely perforated. Long, jointed arms attached to controlling rods. Each hand has one red and two blue rings. Feet are joined heel to toe by red strip.

Culture
Javanese
Material
water buffalo skin, gold metal, paint, fibre, adhesive and water buffalo horn
Made in
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shadow Puppet1568/4

Shadow puppet (wayang kulit) representing the character Petruk. Two dimensional, tall, thin man with articulated shoulders and elbows; arms have rods of horn from hands; another long, horn rod has central split and goes up height of puppet on both sides. Man is of a translucent skin with opaque painted decorations of shoes, bracelets, skirt, necklace, earrings, and facial features. Decorations are painted on both sides. Skirt is of a black and gold triangle design with red outlines; waist has a row of red and green alternating triangles above a row of green and gold triangles; fringe is in orange, blue, and white. Shoes are black with gold decoration. Head has braid of dark hair through a hole at the back of the painted hair area; strands of red string tie end of braid.

Culture
Javanese
Material
water buffalo skin, hair, paint, fibre and water buffalo horn
Made in
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Puppet Rod1374/34

A long curvy translucent multi-shades of brown stick piece. There is a short tapered end separated from the long gradually two-piece diverging and tapering end by a bulbous and grooved section. The long end has pink plastic coiled around it.

Culture
Javanese
Material
water buffalo horn and plastic
Made in
Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shadow Puppet1374/1

Shadow puppet of male figure with black face in profile. Long neck, with six black lines, projecting out from body. Long nose, open mouth with three teeth. Hair tied into curved and pointed shape with gold coloured attachment. Skirt has brightly coloured design and chest is bare. Hair and skirt finely perforated. Long, jointed arms attached to controlling rods. Ring on each hand with three red circles on it. Feet are joined heel to toe by red strip. The shoulders and elbows are rotatable and a marionette stick is attached through the palm of each hand.

Culture
Javanese
Material
water buffalo skin, gold metal, fibre, adhesive, paint and water buffalo horn
Made in
Surakarta, Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Horn596/1

A large hollow horn fitted with a small brass reed; the metal piece has a slit near the smaller end.

Culture
Burmese
Material
water buffalo horn and brass metal
Made in
“Myanmar” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shadow PuppetIb422

Javanese Wayang Kulit puppet of monkey general. Brown pudgy body with red face, red and white eyes, open mouth with red teeth. Curling black beard and hair; feet set wide apart on red base. Wears yellow, blue, red, headdress; bracelets on wrists and ankles and on upper arms. Necklace extending to waist. Bare upper torso. Wears checked black and white skirt with red lines, blue, green, black, white, flounces going down legs and between legs onto base. Plastic rivets on elbows and shoulders. Green stick ties horn to hands. Support stick goes from head, down body and extends further to a carved pointed end. Paint faded or peeled off in areas. Three fingers missing on one hand. A bird is on hat, and one on his waist sash.

Culture
Javanese
Material
plastic, fibre, paint, ink, water buffalo horn and water buffalo skin
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shadow PuppetIb421

Javanese Wayang (shadow) Kulit (leather) puppet of man wearing elaborate crown and outfit. Upper torso bare except for floral pink and red sashes that connect to crown. Large trousers go from hips to knees, highly decorated in pink, blue, and green, and gold leaf all over. Feet together on a red platform. Plastic rivets at shoulder and elbows. Support stick goes from head all down body into point attached by white string half way to end of horn stick curved. Arm sticks also black attached to hands with white string.

Culture
Javanese
Material
water buffalo skin, plastic, fibre, paint, gold metal and water buffalo horn
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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