Batara Guru. Jogjakarta Style

by Wayang Kulit: Indonesian Shadow Puppets

A$850 · Offered by Asia Bookroom · No longer available

Indonesia. Before 1970s . Stock ID #216158 Water buffalo hide and pigment, elaborately gilt and cut out 54 x 69 cm, painted both sides, jointed arms, each affixed to horn batons and another spliced horn baton holds the body. This puppet represents the dewa Bathara Guru in the Javanese and Balinese 'wayang kulit' or leather shadow puppet theatre tradition. Batara Guru is the Indonesian embodiment of the Hindu deity, Shiva, and perhaps the most sacred of

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