Papercut

Description

Orange tissue papercut featuring La Catrina figure, skeletal version of a fashionable lady, made for the Mexican Day of the Dead festival, 1999

Museum reference

K.1999.1431

Object name

Papercut

Production information

Mexico, North America

Date

1999

Materials

Tissue paper

Physical description

Orange tissue

Associations

Depicted: La Catrina
Mexican Day of the Dead festival
Sonora Market, Mexico City, Mexico, North America

Exhibitions

• Patterns of Life (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Carmichael, E., and Sayer, C., The Skeleton at the Feast, Texas, 1997

On display

national museum of scotland »
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world cultures, patterns of life