"Wayang klitik" or "Wayang karucil" figures occupy a middle ground between the figures of "wayang golek" and "wayang kulit". They are constructed similarly to "wayang kulit" figures, but from thin pieces of wood instead of leather, and, like "wayang kulit" figures, are used as shadow puppets. A further similarity is that they are the same smaller size as "wayang kulit" figures. However, wood is more subject to breakage than leather. During battle scenes, "wayang klitik" figures often sustain considerable damage, much to the amusement of the public, but in a country in which before 1970 there were no adequate glues available, breakage generally meant an expensive, newly made figure. On this basis the "wayang klitik" figures, which are to appear in plays where they have to endure battle scenes, have leather arms. The name of these figures is onomotopaeic, from the sound "klitik-klitik" that these figures make when worked by the "dalang".