W150xD150xH550mm, Indonesia
Wayang golek is the traditional West Javanese performance of the wooden rod puppet.
Here is a wonderful documentary about the Wayang golek.
The character of this puppet is Abhimanyu, the tragic hero in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. Son of Arjuna and Subhadra, like his father he was both courageous and a good fighter. Abhimanyu’s education of becoming a warrior started when he was still in womb of Subhadra, his father would go through in length different battle formation. Unfortunately at Subhadra has fallen asleep when it came to the exiting of Chakravyuha and Abhimanyu failed to gain the knowledge and there on the 13th day of the battle he was killed.
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