Abstract
Puppetry is not among the more common art forms of the Near East and Central Asia today. Aside from the Turkish Karag6z shadow play and its relatives in the Arab world (Ritter 1924; Landau 1948), we have only the scanty evidence on hand-puppet theaters in Uzbekistan (Troitskaia 1948) to indicate the rather weak distribution of puppetry in the region in the recent past. Evidence for any form of puppets in Afghanistan is extremely sparse, though the author observed a rudimentary street hand-puppet drama performed by a single player in Mazar-i Sharif (Afghan Turkestan) in 1968. Threedimensional marionettes are particularly rare among Near Eastern and Central Asian puppet types.
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