Context (Field collection)
Collected by Walter William Skeat.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads, 'Used in conjunction with a fiddle (native name: 'rebab' , here called 'geba') and Turah, by the Malay Medicine Man. Semar is used to drive the evil spirit out of Turah, or sick person.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Shadow puppet. Semar, a deer skin shadow player.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (References)
Possibly illustrated in Haji Mubin Sheppard (1963) Pa' Dogol and Wa' Long: The evolution of the comedians in the Malay Shadow Play in Kelantan. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, July, 1965, Vol. 38, No. 1 (207) (July, 1965), pp. 1-5, pl. 3.
Event Date 7/1965
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Amendments / updates)
Z number given 2 December 1986 (noted on catalogue card).
Event Date 2/12/1986
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Research Visit (Anthropology)
RES.2025.3221 | Visit by Dr Patricia Hardwick and Jocelyn Ng. Access and photography of historic collection of shadow puppets to support and inform exhibition in Malaysia.
Event Date 26/9/2025
Author: Anne Doering