Wasserpuppenfiguren

The water puppet theater has a tradition of more than a thousand years in North Vietnam. The performance is a sequence of scenes from political and religious and religious history as well as situations from everyday life. The play is performed in the village pond in front of the assembled community.The figures shown here are part of a complete set (the only one in a museum collection) museum collection) that was acquired in preparation for the Vietnam exhibition. For these figures from the 1950s, the village was provided with a new one, which was warmly welcomed by the village council of elders was very welcome.