Javanese puppets

WAYANG KULIT – SHADOW THEATRE

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Prabu Kresna

In wayang kulit, hand-crafted puppets are used to perform epic tales of good and evil, Asian Art Newspaper explores the world of Indonesia’s popular form of shadow theatre. The wayang kulit shadow play is one of the oldest existing theatre… Continue reading →

The Raffles Collection in London

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Shadow puppet of the character Trigangga, son of Lord Hanuman the white monkey from the epic The Ramayana, Cirebon, western Java, late 1700s or early 1800s, hide, horn, fibre, pigment, gold leaf © Trustees of the British Museum

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) spent most of his career as an East India Company official in Southeast Asia. He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Java in 1811 and assumed the Lieutenant Governorship of Sumatra in 1818. Raffles is credited as… Continue reading →