Batara Guru. (Surakarta Style)

Author: [WAYANG KULIT: INDONESIAN SHADOW PUPPETS]
Title: Batara Guru. (Surakarta Style)
Publication: Indonesia. (Before 1970s)

Description:

Water buffalo hide and pigment, elaborately gilt and cut out 58 x 25 cm, painted both sides, a spliced horn baton holds the body, some abrasions and fading to the painted surface, in good condition overall.

This puppet represents the dewa Bathara Guru in the Javanese 'wayang kulit' or leather shadow puppet theatre tradition. Bathara Guru (the Javanese name for the deity Shiva) symbolized the imperfection of man, represented in the bodily defects of the puppet: four arms, small feet, marks on the throat and often (though not here) depicted with fangs.

Purchased in Java in the early 1970s.

See: Joko Susilo, Eisler Shadow-Puppet Collection Catalogue, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine

When referring to this item please quote stockid 216160.

Seller ID: 216160

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