Rod puppet, kukla, of a donkey made in the Tashkent Puppet Theatre workshop. The animal is light brown with a white muzzle, neck and chest; it has a wide mouth and floppy ears which cover its large, long-lashed eyes. The puppet has three moveable wooden legs covered in brown stockinette and one floppy leg. It has a socket in its back to take a rider and is supported vertically by a squared wooden stick on the rear right leg and a moveable iron rod with a wooden handle set vertically into the chest. The mane and the (braided) tip of the tail are made of white gauze.
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