Item Information

Wajang Golek rod puppet with white face

2 legs, one with rod, housed in Box 32

Conservation assessment: Stable

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

DM number: P18.03

Box: 33

Indonesia

Purchased by John Mulholland for Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum, 1926

"Marionettes in Museums of the United States," in Puppetry, a Yearbook of Puppets and Marionettes. Edited by Paul McPharlin, 23-28. Detroit: The Inland Press, 1930.; Spaulding, Jean, "Masks and Marionettes," Institute Magazine Dec. 1929: 12-13, 28-29.; Gill, Sarah H.S. "The Wajang in Indonesian Culture." PhD dissertation, Columbia University, [n.d.]. (fig. 7); Bell, John. "Puppets and 'The Iconography of Drama': The Brander Matthews Collection at Columbia University." in American Puppetry. Edited by Phyllis T. Dircks, 105-117. New York: McFarland and Company, 2004.

Rod puppets

wood

19"