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A marionette puppet in the character of Hanuman the monkey king from the Ramayana in the HIndu tradition. Carved wood jointed body and head. Gold painted headdress face painted red green yellow with pointed gold ears; painted green and gold fists…

Male Chinese Cantonese wire rod puppet. Head is molded clay solid torso of wood cloth upper arms and legs and carved wooden forearms hands lower legs and feet. Cloth covered shoes. Operated from behind with rods extending horizontally from the…

Female Chinese Cantonese wire rod puppet. Head is molded clay solid torso of wood cloth upper arms and legs and carved wooden forearms hands lower legs and feet. Cloth covered shoes. Operated from behind with rods extending horizontally from the…

18" Chinese puppet male figure. Cloth stuffed body. Wooden head heads and feet. Face painted pink features outlined in black red lips. Thick grey fiber attached as hair beard moustache. Hands painted purple. Feet painted brown. Figure is dressed in…

Colorful 2D shadow puppet cut to the shape of a dragon head (?) probably a fragment. Colors are green red and black applied to thick oblique animal hide. The dragon has two horns on top of head and wide open mouth teeth and tongue protruding.

Shadow puppet of a man dressed in a long full sleeved top and long full pants. The costume is mostly black with some yellow and green. There is little carving on the costume. The puppet is made of leather. The face is shown in profile with the…

Shadow puppet of a bearded man dressed in a black red yellow and green costume. The puppet is made of thin translucent leather. Cut-out designs are all over the costume face and hat. There is a central bamboo stick and rod attached at the neck and it…

Three Sets of Hand Puppets A - F: Six puppets have painted clay heads and hands bodies are made of cloth which is wired to the heads and hands. A: Puppet has smiling face with round puffy cheeks laughing eyes bulging forehead painted black hair and…

Triple tiered wooden base painted black holding an upright black painted piece of wood 1.5 x 1 x 42". There are three metal bands fastened around the upright one 3.5" about the top tier of the ball the next 12" above the top tier the third 20.5"…

A: Piece of wood 8" long 5/8" wide 3/8" thick at one end of which a thin piece of brass 1 3/8" wide 1 1/8" deep is inserted cross ways in a slot. Inserted in the same slot below this are two parallel brass strips cut and folded in a zigzag or…