Puppet

85-1-26

From: Java

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

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Native Name Wayang Golek
Object Number 85-1-26
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Java
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Cotton
Description

Three dimensional puppet with wooden torso, wooden head, wooden arms, articulated at shoulder and elbows, cotton skirt from waist down. Puppet is held and operated by a wooden stick which passes through a hole in the torso and into the base of the head and by sticks attached to the hands. Bright green face, rest of skin gold. Bulging round black eyes, large prominent nose. Hair curving to top of head, with crown, ear ornaments, and garuda mungkur. Paint of head chipping badly. red/ligh green ornaments at uper arms and wrists. Wrists flexed. Black chest cover with pink fringes at shoulders, silver embroidered leaves with pink, blue, gold sequins on front. Tarnished metallic thread sash. Batik skirt: bright raspberry with floral designs in purple/mustard/white. Numeral 6 on base of toso. Character is Gatutkatja, son of Bima, a Pandawa.

Length 82 cm
Width 19 cm
Credit Line Gift of Benjamin D. Bernstein, 1985
Other Number 51 - Other Number

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