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' Thai Traditional Puppet,according to Royal Society of Thailand ; Thai traditional puppet "A type of puppet, have only two body parts are head and hands.Made by bamboo woods, use stitched open end cloth as clothes.To puppet, insert hands underneath inside and hold stick to control." ' .Thai puppet playing has been emerged in Thailand for a long time, since King Rama V period.

Puppet Dimension
The typical Thai puppets are about 30-50 cm tall. The puppeteer control from below the puppet, similar to Vietnamese puppetry. However, Vietnamese puppetry play under the water, which is their unique. The Vietnamese puppet called "water puppet"

History of puppet playing in Thailand
From the historical evidence of Thailand, there has been a puppetry since the Ayutthaya Kingdom. There appears evidence of puppet play in many books and Thai literature since the reign of King Narai the Great until Thonburi kingdom. In the Rattanakosin period, it is said that there is a puppet play in the royal ceremony, such as the funeral. Which is assumed to be a royal puppet to be played, not normal Thai puppet.For the royal puppet. National Artist of Visual Arts, Chakrabhand Posayakrit(Thai:จักรพันธุ์ โปษยกฤต), has defined that  "royal puppets are an art form that uses artificial materials to create a shape like a man with a height of up to 1 meter. Believed that Royal puppet is a royal amusement that has been around since the Ayutthaya period.”

History of Thai Puppetry
It is assumed that the Thai puppet was born in the reign of King Rama V. The evidence appears in the letter. The letter shows a dialogue between Krom Phraya Damrong Rajanubhab And The Prince of Phraya Narisara Nuwattiwong.So, in summary, It is assumed that the Thai puppet was born in the reign of King Chulalongkorn. According to historical evidence, it is known that in the reign of King Rama V puppetry has begun in Thailand.

Occasion for puppet playing
Thai puppet show is a showcase both in ceremonial and ritual. In the Royal Gazette Vol. 10 there is a mention of the puppet show in Thai solar calendar 112 (2436) has puppetry show.It is noted that at that time people generally call this type of puppet. "Northern puppet" later reduce to “puppet". The first puppet playing - Puppets are used to play amusement in the funeral of a son and daughter of the king.

Thai Puppet Show
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Puppet
Puppet nowadays assumed to be built in the same way as the puppets that were invented in the reign of King Rama V, the puppet consists of 4 parts: head, body, hands, costumes and jewellery. There are only two parts of the human shown in puppet, the head and the hands. The body is a bamboo cylinder inserted into the neck. Head and body can be detached. When not used, the display will be disassembled and stored separately. The head of the puppet is made of light wood such as Coral woods, Wrightia religiosa wood, teakwood the wood that use should be good wood. The stick should be about 12 cm wide and about 20 cm long. The wood then be craved as head, face and neck, the length of the face and head will be about 10 - 12 cm long. The neck is about 8 centimetres long and the hole inside is wide enough that the bamboo can be inserted easily. Because of the length of the neck will be used to connect with the bamboo cylinder body. When wearing a coat over the bamboo cylinder, it will get a fit shape of human neck. Then the puppet will be moulded with clay to form the nose, mouth, eyebrows and ears. Traditional belief that the head of the puppet is sacred. Therefore, writing the eye is the last step that must be done in the preaching. The body of the puppets is about 30 - 50 cm long. Hands usually carved with wood size about 4 - 5 cm to fit the body size. leather, cut into fingers and bent to curved as a traditional Thai theoretical hand. The right hand of the puppet is always armed. The drill holes in the middle for a weapon that can change according to the story playing. The hands will be placed on both sides of bamboo sticks with the length as the bamboo body that held the body.

Costumes and Jewellery
Fabric of the puppet fabricated with a single fabric. The size is about 60 cm long and about 120-150 cm long, folded in half as a cover. The fabric is the puppet costume. The costume will be cover all bamboo body left to be seen only head and neck in the middle and two hands in the corners of the fabric. Decoration of the head of the puppet will use head jewellery such as crown, Jada(Thai: ชฎา), which helps the puppets to be more beautiful.In the neck area jewellery decorated connected shoulders pad is placed between shoulders. Other props will be made in a puppet proportion.

Puppetry
Originally, the owners of the puppetry will have their own puppetry. The puppet theatre is usually built with plank. Wood is used is bamboo because it is temporarily non-durable and easy to knock down. Theatre will be in cubic form. The length of each side is about 5 meters high enough to fit the eyes of the audience. The height of the floor to the roof about 5 meters, the side and the back covered with a dense cover. In the front will be four columns, set up into a pair of columns.

The scene
The scene that used to decorate the puppetry is divided into three parts.
 * 1)  The first scene part is always stretched in front of the theatre between the two columns, stretch from roof to floor. The bottom is often depicted as a fortress, walls and shrubs.
 * 2) This is a big scene about 3 meters long, use to refer as a situation in the storyline.
 * 3) The third part is a picture of characters. This screen is used to cover the puppet player that are performing below the scene.

Musical instruments for the puppet show have five instruments. Five instruments are in Thai traditional band called Pii Part (Thai: วงปี่พาทย์) and contains singing using content brought from Thai literature.
 * Musical instrument and melody