Rod puppet. Puppet may play the 'Father of the Bride' in 'The Wedding'.
Puppet is of a mature man with hair, moustache and beard made from brown lambskin. He has a large head; a yellow complexion and violet, painted eyes.
He wears a pointed, brown, velvet hat bound with a white gauze turban and a robe striped in red, yellow, green, blue and black which opens at the front and is tied wtih a blue and white band. This band continues as the robe's trim at its front, hem and wrists and is worn over a plain white/cream undershirt. The puppet's hands are made from padded cloth. Two metal rods with wooden handles are attached to the hands (Cf. puppets from Tashkent).
Puppet was purchased from the Bukhara English Puppet Theatre.
