Wooden marionette from Burma representing a female clown, Daw Moe, with articulated breasts, hands, and mouth. There is a separate piece of wood for the neck. All visible body parts are painted flesh colour. The face is painted in black to indicate eyes, eyebrows, wrinkles in brow. The lips are painted red, as are the fingernails and toenails. The black hair is set in holes around the edge of the top of the head, and tied in a top knot. She is wearing a skirt of black Chinese brocaded silk and a maroon silk jacket decorated with ikat, with borders in light brown ikat silk decorated with clusters of brass sequins.
Three strings issue from the top of the head. Two holes in the back of the neck have later loops of string added. One string runs from each knee, and one from the end of each breast. There are two strings from the shoulders, and one from the top of the legs. The upper body and lower body are joined by string, which has been replaced. Holes in hands indicate there were strings here too in the past. The strings are attached to a wooden handle, or dalet.
in a comic interlude in a puppet show
