"Rama", a leather shadow puppet (courtesy Government Museum, Madras) (Census of India 1961, Selected Crafts of Andhra Pradesh, 1964, Leather Puppet Dolls, Plate 12, between pp. 22 and 23)

Black-and-white photograph of a large leather puppet of a crowned figure drawing a bow, with patterned clothes and jointed legs.
Black-and-white photograph of a large leather puppet of a crowned figure drawing a bow, with patterned clothes and jointed legs.
Type
Photograph
Creator
A. Chandra Sekhar (Superintendent of Census Operations, Andhra Pradesh), Selected Crafts of Andhra Pradesh, 1964 (photograph courtesy Government Museum, Madras)
Date
1964
Licence
Public domain in India
From
A. Chandra Sekhar (Census of India), Census of India 1961, Vol. II: Andhra Pradesh, Part VII-A (i): Selected Crafts of Andhra Pradesh (opens in a new tab), 1964, Leather Puppet Dolls, Plate 12, between pp. 22 and 23 (PDF p. 68)
Original
censusindia.gov.in (opens in a new tab)
Appears in
Andhra State & Andhra Pradesh, Telugu folk arts: burrakatha, harikatha, yakshaganam and more