Product Description

Old Wayang Kulit: Delem

Material: Buffalo hide, buffalo horn, paint
Style: Java, at least 75 years old
Size: Height 61.5 cm (excluding the stand), width 31.5 cm
Order Number: PS26

Background: The dalang places the ‘good’ puppets on his right and the rest on his left. The good are morally superior heroes. The others are enemies and inferior. In a Ramayana performance, Rama, Sita, Laksmana, the bird Jatayu and many members of Rama’s monkey army, as well as servants Twalen and Merdah, belong to the party of the right.

Their opponents belong to the party of the left and include the demon king Rawana, his son Indrajit, his brothers Kumbakarna and Wibisana, his army of demons and the two servants Delem and Sangut. The Kayonan (tree puppet) and Genungan (mountain puppet) and the Supreme god puppet belong to neither party and are placed in the cenre of the screen.

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