Shadow puppet representing Petruk
Item
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Title
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Shadow puppet representing Petruk
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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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Format
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32 11/16 x 11 inches; 83 x 28 cm
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Description
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Petruk is one of the Punakawan whose characteristics are his long limbs and long nose. He likes to tell jokes and his sense of humor makes him into one of the most popular Punakawan as dalangs or puppeteers developed stories centered around Petruk.
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Provenance
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Gift of Joseph Fischer acquired through the George and Mary Rockwell Fund and the gift of Louise Taraldson Woods by exchange
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Rights
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Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Coll. no. 2008.073.065
