papercut
- Museum number
- Am1993,11.4
- Description
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Papercut; made of bark paper (amate in Spanish); rectangle of brown bark paper for background; white bark paper cut out and glued to background; design shows sun with face at centre, four birds above and four birds below.
- Production date
- 1990s
- Dimensions
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Height: 60 centimetres
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Width: 40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Sayer, Chloë. Crafts of Mexico. New York: Doubleday, 1977 p. 126-7; Sandstrom, Alan R and Sandstrom, Pamela Effrein. Traditional Papermaking and Paper Cult Figures of Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986; Sayer, Chloë. Arts and Crafts of Mexico. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990 p. 92 Fig. 85.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1993
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1993,11.4