"Vali and Sugreeva", leather shadow puppets (courtesy Publications Division) (Census of India 1961, Selected Crafts of Andhra Pradesh, 1964, Leather Puppet Dolls, Plate 15, between pp. 22 and 23)

Black-and-white photograph of two leather puppets of monkey-faced warriors in patterned clothes, standing side by side.

Type: Photograph
Creator: A. Chandra Sekhar (Superintendent of Census Operations, Andhra Pradesh), Selected Crafts of Andhra Pradesh, 1964 (photograph courtesy Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting)
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 15, between pp. 22 and 23 (PDF p. 71)
Original: censusindia.gov.in (opens in a new tab)
Appears in: Andhra State & Andhra Pradesh, Telugu folk arts: burrakatha, harikatha, yakshaganam and more