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Object Number 11-49-70/83272
Display Title Shadow puppet
Descriptions
Object Description Shadow puppet
Inventory Description Puppet, standing male figure, composed of cut, patinated, and painted leather, gold body, black face, multi-colored dress. Large curving carved horn stick fastened by fiber to body, carved horn sticks fastened by fiber to each hand, bone or horn joining elbows and shoulders.
Classification
  • Puppet
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Javanese
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Indonesia / Java
Dimensions Overall: 77 x 33 x 2.5 cm (30 5/16 x 13 x 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 83272
Provenance
Collector Dr. Charles Pickering Bowditch (1911 - 1911)
Donor Dr. Charles Pickering Bowditch (1911 - 1911)

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