Author: BUURMAN, P.,
Title: Wayang Golèk. De fascinerende wereld van het klassieke West-Javaanse poppenspel. 1st.
Description: Alphen a.d. Rijn, A.W. Sijthoff, 1980. Small 4°, cloth, pictorial dj., 160pp. Coloured frontisp., many other coloured & plain plates, text-ills. & figures, register (names & characteristics of Wayang Golèk puppets), genealogical tables. GROENENDAEL, 054. Essay on the iconography of the West Javanese Wayang golèk purwa, giving a classification of the puppets, taking into account the type of face and the headdress of the various puppets. To this are added a genealogy of the principal characters of the Arjuna-Saara-Bau, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and an alphabetical index on the characters discussed with references to the classification of the puppets in the first part of the book.This rather technical part is preceded by a general introduction to the wayang theatre. (Groenendael, Wayang, op.cit.). Fine copy.

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