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Yellow car

Yellow car
Model car made of cardboard, Malaysia, mid-1980s

In Southeast Asia, models of everything we use in everyday life are sometimes made of paper so that they can be burned to honour dead family members. Things were made to be extra nice, like a car including a chauffeur.

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