Male glove puppet with a short central rod. The puppet has a distinctive, caricatured head with a large, spade-shaped chin, rose-bud mouth, moustache, long eyelashes and thick eyebrows. He is dressed in a square Uzbek hat (DOPPO/DOPPE) in black with a white and black trim; a brown, blue, green and silver stripy robe (KHALAT) which is trimmed in a golden, openwork fabric down the front and at the cuffs.
glove puppet
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