Shadow puppet of a Kurawa assistant, made of carved and painted leather. She is a gossip, lady -in-waiting to the princess, Raja Putri. Her hair is worn in a forward curl above a flat headdress on the top of her head, and she has a shoulder cloth looping across her chest. She has a flat nose and a protruding upper lip. Her flesh is painted brown
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