[없는 문명] 새 머리 그림자 인형

Museum catalogue photograph of a shadow puppet from a civilisation that never existed: a flat figure of a long-necked bird-headed dancer cut from thin translucent rawhide, about forty centimetres tall, its body pierced with hundreds of tiny punched holes forming feather patterns, joints at the shoulders, elbows and knees tied with knotted sinew so the limbs can swing, and three thin wooden control rods attached. The hide is amber where thin and brown where thick, one hand is torn off at the wrist. Displayed flat on a light box so light glows through the holes. Neutral grey seamless background, raking light from the left, a black-and-white scale bar and a small accession card beside the object with no legible writing on it. Archaeological museum catalogue documentation style. No readable text, no letters, no numbers, no logos.