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.