Paper Cutout Decoration
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1981
name: label: Donor Name
content: Office Of Folklife Programs
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Length of yellow tissue paper which has been cut out mechanically into elaborate designs. Floral border around three scenes: skeletons dancing, eating, and playing the harp. Very fragile. Decoration for Mexican Day of the Dead. Loaned to Rewick 10/1/(19)91, returned 1983."
label: Notes
content: ONE OF ELEVEN DECORATIONS MADE FOR MEXICAN CELEBRATION OF "DAY OF THE DEAD", (ALL SOUL'S & ALL SAINTS' DAY, NOV. 2) PURCHASED IN MEXICO CITY, NOV. 1, 1979 BY RAQUEL B. CEJA; SPECIFICALLY ASSEMBLED FOR RENWICK'S CELEBRATION EXHIBIT (1981). ITEMS MADE FOR SALE AS DECORATIONS.
label: Notes
content: This type of object is called "papel picado," or "punched/perforated paper." The designs are typically cut from tissue paper using a guide and chisels, hole punches, and mallets or hammers. Up to 40 or 50 stacked sheets of tissue paper may be cut at a time. Skeleton- theme papel picado banners are used as decoration on Day of the Dead altars.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Oct 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mexico City, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mexican
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 345735
label: USNM Number
content: E421291-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Paper Cutout