Sang Hyang Wenang (Yogyakarta Style)

Author: [WAYANG KULIT: INDONESIAN SHADOW PUPPETS]
Title: Sang Hyang Wenang (Yogyakarta Style)
Publication: Indonesia. (Before 1970s)

Description:

Water buffalo hide, gilt and pigment, chiselled and cut out, 34 x 54 cms (fully extended), painted both sides affixed to a spliced horn baton, some fading and minor loss of pigment.

This puppet represents the supreme being Sang Hyang Wenang (power holder of all gods) in the Javanese 'wayang kulit' or leather shadow puppet theatre tradition. In Old Javanese, the term Hyang means "god", "goddess", "deified being", or "divinity".

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 216720.

Seller ID: 216720

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