Kuda Lumping in Java, Hobby Horse in Britain
AN exhibition called Mysterious Dolls, Old Prints featured childrens games in Indonesia during the 1900s, an era of Javanese-Dutch blending that produced a mixed cultural style. During this era, dolls for Dutch girls and toy soldier horses were imported from Holland. Earlier, however, our typical traditional games, such as bekelan, gobak sodor, and pathok lele turned out to have their equivalents in Europe. At that time, when children were not yet familiar with modern video games, their games were already universal in nature. Tempo reports.
November 14, 2006
......On the bottom shelf there are toys...on the top shelf there are six dolls...A big blonde child doll wearing a dress, socks and shoes and a real bowtie. It has big, round eyes with very long eyelashes. It will utter mama and papa with a funny voice when a string is tugged...
...There is also a Lady doll representing a dainty adult female wearing a long shining satin dress a la French style, with her hair combed high on which a hat sits at a tilt