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[[circle 1 kodi=20]]
go to Jogja to buy hides;[[cross-out]] acc. to Atmo nobody brings hides for sale to the village

[insert: to dissolve ancur - jangkang shell dried + burned till becomes charcoal-soaked in cold water (about 10 jangkang in 3 liters water) for 3 days + nights
Water strained + boiled + ancur put in - about 25 ancur for a liter of charcoal water + boiled down till becomes 1 glass - 1 glass enough for 6 wayang (so from 10 jangkang enough for 3 glasses or about 20 wayangs, acc. to Pak Atmo)]

TANGKAI
holders for wayang from water buffalo horns - brought in Solo - 1 kodi small holders 800 Rp
for large holders e.g. for Bima Sena 2500 for a white one - must be from an albino buffalo - highly prized but easily broken - large black tangkai 1000Rp each 

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Sagiyo says color of tangkai used depends on color of figure, eg. black Krisna will use black tangkai, etc. 
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way of making tangkai is to first quarter each short horn - then
[[sketch]]
then file a split, then file back toward points of split till opens out - doesn't break 
((is it heated?))

tools:
1. petel - made in Imogiri
2. tatah - one complete set of 12, 1200 Rp (100 Rp per)
name of maker Wardipaidi
((name in book 2 Pak Wardiryo - recheck))
3. rular (actually the "wondo" or character of the puppet determined by the posture of the rular block - out)
4. pandugan - wooden base used for [[crossed-out]] talah [[/crossed-out]] menatah
talah edges waxed or oiled with minyak kelapa
people in Pocung don't know

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Draawings?