Indonesian Shadow play - Wayang Kulit - 30 cm - Reproduction

Indonesian puppets - Shadow theater - The Wayang Kulit:

- The price shown is for a single puppet.
- Here you will find a small Wayang Kulit. The character measures 30cm and the character with the wood measures approximately 50cm.
- You cannot choose here the model of the Wayang Kulit that you will receive, it is random. If you order more than one they will all be different from each other (if possible we have about 20 different models)
- Sold without a stand, you will receive the Wayang Kulit with a paper or its name and information about the character is noted.
- The wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theatre. Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by a gamelan orchestra in Java, and by gender wayang in Bali.
- Shadow play or also known as shadow puppetry is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated figures (shadow puppets) to create the impression of moving humans and other three-dimensional objects.
- Wayang kulit, or shadow puppets, are without a doubt the best known of the Indonesian wayang. Kulit means skin, and refers to the leather construction of the puppets that are carefully chiselled with very fine tools and supported with carefully shaped buffalo horn handles and control rods.
- This is an antic puppets, not a reproduction.