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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 309287, member: 2844&quot;]It does, I first searched online for Uyghur, Kirghiz, etc shadow puppets, but couldn&#039;t find any. Then realized the execution looked very Chinese, searched some more, but couldn&#039;t find this little guy. Lots of others with the flared sleeves and trousers and the same cut out designs, so I&#039;m confident he is Chinese made and probably of a Central Asian character.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris, since you&#039;re now officially collecting.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> Just to show how every detail of a Wayang puppet is important:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102142[/ATTACH]</p><p>Of course the little patrem, woman&#039;s keris, is vital to the understanding of the complex information.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Ah well, it held down the pages and gave me another chance to show a keris. It is from Madura, has the winged horse, one of the symbols of my family, on the ship, along with sea waves. Madura was a maritime state with 68 islands that relied on the sea for their livelihood.</p><p>A &#039;jumping squirrel&#039; hilt, which has nothing to do with a squirrel, but is a stylized cockatoo, the sacred messenger between heaven and earth.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the book, published in 1988:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102143[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As an indication of the inportance of wayang symbolism to Javanese culture, a 19th century portrait of Pakubuwana X, Susuhunan (ruler) of Solo, Central Java.</p><p>He had his face painted as if he was a wayang puppet, to show his nobility concurred with the ethics of the sacred wayang:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F62%2F66%2F00%2F62660078f8c5c41698d3c5a020593cf1.jpg&amp;sp=0f5cd7684e0a7fd9db11e03139cb939e" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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