"The entire system of puppetry, including performance, head crafting, and traditional music, has been passed down for centuries," Wang says. Crafting a small puppet head retains the same ...

Explore Jim Henson's puppets and Muppets in the Smithsonian's collections along ... Puppet National Museum of American History skekEkt the Ornamentalist Skeksis Puppet Head from The Dark Crystal ...

He moves toward a two-person puppet with a tiger head and a decorated cloth for a body. A single, ominous fang juts out of its mouth. “There’s this alchemy and this magic,” he said.

Roll your strip into a tight roll and secure with glue – easy! While the body dries, make your puppet head! Draw your puppet face onto a plain piece of paper and colour it in, then cut it out ...

Amari Yōichirō is one of just a few artisans still making parts for the puppets used in performances. Nippon.com visited him at his Tokushima studio. Up to ¥1 Million Per Head Amari has been ...

The questions were, which characters should be puppets ... clay model of the dragon’s head, Beattie mummified it in plastic wrap and masking tape and made a pattern that she enlarged with ...

Xu Zhuchu, a national-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Zhangzhou wood puppet head carving, displays a wood puppet head at a studio in Zhangzhou City, southeast China's Fujian Province, ...