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48 July 28 - visit to Pak Warno Waskinto, mask & wayang golek maker; address: nDiro (dukoh), Pendowohardjo, Sewon, Bantul [[business card]] WARNO WASKITO (kerajinan Topeng dan Wayang Golek) nDiro, Pendowohardjo Sewon, Bantul YOGYAKARTA. [[/business card]] an elderly man, assisted by 3 of his children & grandchildren (anak den cucu) - began making masks in 1932 because he "likes them" (karena senang aja) - no one really taught him (belajar sendiri) & his father was not a maskmaker - early in his career, however, received an order from the then-new museum Sono Budoyo to make masks for the museum collection - the designs from were made by Pak Warno himself, but corrected and improved in many particulars by Pak J.L. Moeno and Pak Kuswaji, former a Dutch archol. and latter a batik painter, both then with the museum now makes 3 basic types of products: 1. wayang krucil/klitk - flat wooden puppets used only for Panji stories 2. masks of over 90 types 3. wayang golek puppets (3 dimentional 49 puppets used for the Panji, Purba (Ramay & Mak.) and also an Islamic cycle of stories -also mounts ie horses & tigers) - formerly made wayang kulet, but stopped because "if the quality wasn't good I lost money" (kalau mutunya tidak baik saya rugi) still however makes some accessories, ie small leather kris's, for the wooden puppets raw mat: 1 kayu jaranan, a white wood, for the masks, puppets, & golek heads & stems 2 scraps of leather, batik, velvet, gold trim etc. for golek costumes 3 powder paint purchased from hardware store -the wood purchased from various places, wherever he can get it, & sometimes travels as far as Semarang, & Kemiri (south of Solo) to get it -7 large logs of 1 1/2 meter each cost Rp. 12,000 process: 1. wood is cut into small blocks the size roughly of a mask 2. blocks are soaked in water in a dirt pit near the house for a year,- water in ditch is kept moving thru irrigation-like system - purpose [[margin]] muddy water (jang berlumpur) best [[/margin]]