Puppet

Three dimensional puppet with wooden torso, wooden head, wooden arms, articulated at shoulder and elbows, cotton skirt from waist down. Puppet is held and operated by a wooden stick which passes through a hole in the torso and into the base of the head and by sticks attached to the hands. Face brown, torso yellow, arms gold. Narrow eyes, straight nose. hair curving to top of head, with crown, ear ornaments, and garuda mungkur. Ornaments at upper arms and wrists. Wrists flexed. Long black velvet chest cover with gold braid around edge and across chest. Wide red and gold brocade sash. Batik skirt; dark gray with flora and bird in yellow, mustard, light and dark blue. (Colored areas of flowers, etc. with small white dots.) Hair badly eaten away by insects at one side and in curved part at top. Male character from the Mahabharata.