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Wau bulan kite

Also known as Wau (kite flying)

Wau bulan kite: photograph by D.W. Fisher-Freberg
Photo: D.W. Fisher-Freberg, CC BY-SA 3.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Decorated crescent-shaped kites flown and shown off, especially on the east coast of the peninsula.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Malaysia.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Southeast Asia and the Islands.

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