- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Black paper shadow puppet [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 10/3/2005]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1947
- Date collected
- By 1947
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1947
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant
- Dimensions
- Length: max 116 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1947.10.15.4 Other numbers: 6
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Letter from Haynes, dated 14 August 1947: 'I have a number of small figures, beautifully cut out in black, of the so-called "Wayang Kulit" or Malay Shadow Play.' There is another letter from the donor, dated 20 August 1947, 'I handed things yesterday to Pickfords to pack and deliver to you, when they have a van going to Oxford. Have added a very fine set of beautifually coloured figures of Malay (Javanese) shadow play. ...'
There is also a typed list included: 'Wayang - Kulit, Kelantan, These Puppets are of Siamese Origin. The names of many are used in the Javaness [sic] Wayang-Kulit and the design differ[s] slightly, in the less important figures. ... [written by] Lilian Stanhope Williams, Kota Bharu.'
There is also a faxed letter from S. Kingham, a researcher at Pusat Seni Arts Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia, dated 19 April 1997, asking for information regarding shadow-play figures from Kelantan, but attributing them to Raymond Firth. A response from Jeremy Coote, dated 5 May 1997, confirms this is the collection of figures, but pointing out they were not collected by Firth. [MOB 29/1/2002]
Search terms: Theatre and Drama, Figure, Religion, Shadow Puppet