How To Make a Wayang Kulit

          Take athin piece of  buffalo skin which is large enough for the puppet.Clean the skin.Draw the puppeton the sin. Cut around your drawing with a sharp knife. Cut holes in the puppet where the light should go through. Take four small pieces of buffalo skin which are large enough for the upper arms and for the lower arms and hands.Clean the skin.Draw the arms and hands and cut around them.

        Paint all of the parts of the puppet.Take a long piece of buffalo horn,and cut a slitin it down the middle.Do not slit the big part of the horn.Put the horn into some very hot water until it become soft.Then dry it,and put the puppet in the slit in the horn. Bend the horn so that it goes along the middle of the body to the head. Fasten the horn to the puppet with string.

      Then fasten the upper arms to the body with string. Fasten the lower arms to the upper arms with string. Fasten a long piece of buffalo horn to each hand with string.