Myanmar Puppets

To our study, there were no hand puppets or glove puppets in the olden days of Myanmar. Myanmars specialize only into marionettes (puppets with strings   hanged from above). Myanmar puppets are mostly made of wood, painted,   then costumed with real apparel appropriately.

The Set of 28 Puppets

Rather than making each puppets for each show, a set of 28 puppets basically   predefined by Myanmar puppeteers. It is said that creation of 28 of them were   based on 28 types of elements of a man's body. Here they are...

	King
	Prince
	Princess
	General
	Minister or the Advisor to the King
	Zawgyee: Yogi, alchemist who possess supernatural powers
	Comedians, sometimes in a pair
	Monkey
	Boy
	Girl
	Ogre, the oriental gargoyle
	Hunchback: Tale bearing bunchbacked person, usually an old woman
	Horse

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