Bukhara's ancient trading domes.
One of a Kind!
Garbed in traditional ikat costume, these papier-mâché dolls, purchased under one of Bukhara’s old trading domes, are based on the puppets that used to provide popular entertainment in public squares across the country. And yes, that would be a unibrow gracing the face of our Uzbek lovelies; in Uzbekistan as in many places around the world, the unibrow is an attractive trait, signifying purity in women and virility in men.
The puppet show is an ancient form of entertainment that has been played out on stages across the Mediterranean and Middle East since around the 1st century BC. An important form of social critique, the durability ... Read More
The puppet show is an ancient form of entertainment that has been played out on stages across the Mediterranean and Middle East since around the 1st century BC. An important form of social critique, the durability of the puppet show may be attributed to the opportunity it gives the society to poke fun at corrupt rulers and bureaucrats; humor, always subversive, seems to be an especially good way of talking about serious things with a light touch. Of course many shows were also based on crowd-pleasing famous legends and love stories. Sadly, these days it’s rare to catch a puppet show in the public square like you used to be able to. There are, however, a few puppet theaters in major Uzbek cities like Bukhara, where puppet-master Iskandar Khakimov conducts shows in his workshop, just off the main square off Lyabi Hauz, the city’s main square. Read Less
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