Shadow puppet representing Durga
Item
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Title
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Shadow puppet representing Durga
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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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25 9/16 x 9 1/6 inches; 65 x 23 cm
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Description
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Betari Durga is the powerful consort of Batara Guru or Shiva. She is the goddess of death, violence, and darkness who rules over ghosts, vampires, and other evil spirits. In the lakons (stories) of Mahabharata, she is always associated with the evil forces (the Kurawas). Her husband cannot prevail against her will and only Semar is able to defeat her.
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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. 2008.073.073
