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Most non-Indonesians who have any familiarity with the term Wayang think of it as a form of theatre which features so-called “shadow puppets”.
Wayang kulit – the form which involves “shadow puppets” – is in fact just one of Indonesia’s several kinds of Wayang theatre.
One of them does not directly involve any puppets.
Another – the kind pictured above – features highly skilled puppetry and puppet-making, but its puppets are very unlike their Wayang kulit counterparts.
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As will be more clear if you zoom in on/enlarge the featured image, it shows a very fine set of Indonesian “shadow” puppets, of the Wayang Kulit kind.
Italy abounds with museums and galleries.
Not a few of them are excellent.
Some are truly singular, albeit highly likely to be crowded.
Often, they are an “embarrassment of riches” – altogether too much to be comprehended/appreciated properly in the space of a single visit.
Our nicest museum surprise in 2023 was Palermo’s Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum.
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