Puppets
These are most of my Mum's puppet collection.
See 3 more pics on my Flickr pages.
The one above is Thai, below are a Sicilian knight, a conducter from England, four Javanese rod puppets, and King Charles IV from Czechoslovakia. I've been to see a few puppet shows in Brighton, and if done really well they can be utterly magical and captivating. Long live the art of Puppetry.