Wayang Kulit Shadow Puppets
Wayang kulit is traditional shadow puppetry from Java and Bali in Indonesia. A dalang is essentially a leather middle manager. The Javanese word wayang means shadow or imagination.
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Wayang kulit is traditional shadow puppetry from Java and Bali in Indonesia. A dalang is essentially a leather middle manager.
The Javanese word wayang means shadow or imagination. Kulit means skin or leather, the material carved for these puppets.
Australian postage stamps featured wayang kulit examples.
Puppets range from 25 cm to 75 cm tall. They are mounted on bamboo sticks.
A coconut oil lamp or electric bulb casts shadows behind white cloth. The dalang animates figures between light and screen.
The oldest record mentioning wayang dates from around 840 CE. These Jaha Inscriptions list three sorts of performers.
Dawn arrives like an uninvited understudy.
On 7 November 2003, UNESCO designated wayang theatre a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
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