Please solve this mystery.....

[Nyctophyllia]

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

Are they Japanese?
Mongolian maybe?

I'd err at Japanese warriors or spirit gods?

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

do you have any other photos of them?

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

We are legion.

Expect us.

I think they’re Indonesian, maybe puppets.

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

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.

wepa.unima.org/en/indonesia/

try asking the Oriental Museum here in Durham

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

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

@growinggreyer 😂😂

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

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

Are they puppets?

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

I dont think they are puppets

where you actually at the event these were at?

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

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.

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

Other things or other figurines (or both?)

Other things, pieces of "furniture"

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

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Nyctophyllia

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