Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card notes 'Illustration on 9DN card'.
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Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old paper label applied on the back of the puppet reads '9DT'.
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Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (Physical description)
Figure of kris.
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Author: maa

Description (Inscription)
Handwritten 'kris' in black ink on the front of the puppet.
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Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

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

Context (Related Documents)
Fourteenth Annual Report Of The Antiquarian Committee (1899), Appendix II, SKeat Collection, '12 The Theatre, No. 683. The shadow-play, Wajang, comprising one hundred and fifty-five specimens, viz.: (a) 1—149. A complete set of figures, numbering one hundred and forty-nine, cut out of hide. [...] four
arrows, three krises, and a trident.
[...]
(The above objects formed the entire outfit of Che Abas, a Kelantan [sic] Malay, who for many years was an exhibitor of the Wayang [sic], in which the above set of figures was used for a period of twelve years.)'
Event Date 6/6/1899
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (Physical description)
Kris. Shadow puppet made of hide with white animal hair still visible on the back, showing of a kris (dagger).
Event Date 30/6/2025
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu