Irawan
Item
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Title
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Irawan
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Creator
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Unidentified artist
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Subject
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Shadow puppet
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Culture
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Javanese
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Medium
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Buffalo leather; buffalo horn; pigments
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Description
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Irawan is one of the minor characters in the epic of the Mahabharata. He is the son of Arjuna with Ulupi who died in the Great War of the Bharata. In Javanese wayang, Irawan and his step-brother, Abhimanyu, are featured in more than forty lakons (stories) set in the period of the Pandawa. He is often depicted with a small and extremely refined figure with white face and dubbed with a light and floating voice to represent his modest and controlled personality.
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Provenance
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Gift of Claire Holt and Benedict R.O'G. Anderson
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Rights
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Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Coll. no. 81.033.028
Irawan