Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair wax candle This is a wonderful Indonesian

This is a wonderful Indonesian Wayang Kulit shadow puppet

While I have not been able to find out anything about him or her

body and tail feathers

recently sold at auction for $325

9" wide x 8 1/4" deep x 8 7/8" tall

Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair wax candle This is a wonderful IndonesianThese wooden clapsticks, or clappers, or singing sticks, make a terrifically satisfying clap when struck in addition to being wonderful objects that feel great in the hand. There is a fantastic variety of Australian Aboriginal clapsticks out there many decorated with burned designs like these, others painted and or carved. They have been used as percussive instruments for thousands of years, often in concert with the didgeridoo, a wind instrument of