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Please solve this mystery.....

30 replies

Nyctophyllia · 14/06/2020 15:04

What are these figures, I can't give the context but it seems impossible to find out anything about them
Tried image search, reddit etc
Thanks

Please solve this mystery.....
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JoesExotic · 14/06/2020 15:13

Are they Japanese?
Mongolian maybe?

I'd err at Japanese warriors or spirit gods?

JoesExotic · 14/06/2020 15:17

They remind me very much of the style of early Japanese art...

Please solve this mystery.....
Gatekeeper · 14/06/2020 15:24

do you have any other photos of them?

growinggreyer · 14/06/2020 15:25

I can hear what they are saying, it seems to be...

We are legion.

Expect us.

AgentProvocateur · 14/06/2020 15:29

I think they’re Indonesian, maybe puppets.

Nyctophyllia · 14/06/2020 15:29

I don't have any other pics of them but I'm dying to know...

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Ormally · 14/06/2020 15:29

When I was young there used to be a shop that sold a lot of Javanese carvings (that freaked me out so they stuck in the memory). There were Javanese face masks, intended for traditional plays and possibly archetypal roles, that looked very like these - can be googled.

AgentProvocateur · 14/06/2020 15:30

wepa.unima.org/en/indonesia/

Gatekeeper · 14/06/2020 15:32

try asking the Oriental Museum here in Durham

www.dur.ac.uk/oriental.museum/?fbclid=IwAR2DmKHMSfBYphWFRTCAkr2CFZpqnbV54iWPd7UOJaV1wn7kwA60e3yeMHo

Gatekeeper · 14/06/2020 15:33

I thought Javanese as well but couldn't see anything similar

cantgetmyheadroundit · 14/06/2020 15:34

@growinggreyer 😂😂

NetballHoop · 14/06/2020 15:36

They look quite like the Indonesian shadow puppets in in-laws have.

Nyctophyllia · 14/06/2020 15:41

Also the orange things at the side may be relevant,dont know what they are either, looks like cable ties too

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Samtsirch · 14/06/2020 15:49

Are they puppets?

Samtsirch · 14/06/2020 15:51

Actually the ones at the back look as though they are shaped like chess pieces.
They do look Japanese.

Nyctophyllia · 14/06/2020 16:03

I dont think they are puppets

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Gatekeeper · 14/06/2020 17:02

where you actually at the event these were at?

Nyctophyllia · 14/06/2020 17:27

No I wasn't, there were other strange things there but I dont want to get the person who took the pics into trouble

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Ormally · 14/06/2020 17:37

Close-ish example - the teeth, nose and eyes www.ebay.com/itm/JAVANESE-MASK-TOPENG-PUNAKAWAN-MADE-IN-INDONESIA-/370644863357

Some of the description wording is interesting.

Nyctophyllia · 14/06/2020 17:43

@Ormally that does seem similar
The other things there appear to be sexual in nature if that makes a difference

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Ormally · 14/06/2020 17:54

Other things or other figurines (or both?)

Nyctophyllia · 14/06/2020 18:04

Other things, pieces of "furniture"

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PlatinumBrunette · 14/06/2020 18:07

99% sure they’re not Japanese.
Perhaps Burmese, Malaysian, Thai, or thereabouts.

Nyctophyllia · 14/06/2020 21:39

Bump

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Gatekeeper · 15/06/2020 08:52

Nyctophyllia

Send the photo to the museum i linked to above, they specialise in art and history etc for the Far East