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INDONESIAN WAYANG PUPPETS
commercial hand-made bookmark
hand-painted and carved vellum | 175 mm
Wayang are Indonesian
shadow puppets used in the tra- ditional folk theatre. Flat cut-out figures mostly made
of
vellum - similar to the bookmark here - are manipulated
by rods in front of a translucent screen in the
light of a
coconut-husk lamp.
UNESCO included this theatre tradition in its list of world cultural heritage in 2003.
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