papercut
- Museum number
- Am1990,08.618
- Description
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Batch of papercuts; cut with chisel from fuchsia tissue paper; design shows three rounded multi-petaled flowers (two top, one bottom), hollow leaves all around bottom flower; serrated triangles along bottom border.
- Production date
- 1980s
- Dimensions
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Height: 25 centimetres
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Width: 19 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Carmichael, Elizabeth and Sayer, Chloë. The Skeleton at the Feast, The Day of the Dead in Mexico. London: British Museum Press, 1991 pp. 75-82 for biography of Fredy Méndez.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1990
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1990,08.618