Red, blue, green, yellow, and brown piece of a shadow puppet play set. The piece is a small, ramshackle cottage with a broken door and a wooden branch with yellow drinking gourds hanging from it.

This piece is the shadow puppet character Karagiozis' cottage where he lives with his wife Aglaia and his three sons during the Ottoman Empire occupation of Greece.

More information about Karaghiozis: https://greekreporter.com/2022/07/23/karagiozis-puppet-greece-greekhistory/

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