DepartmentUnited States & Canada

Paper cut

NamePaper cut

CultureSantee Sioux

Dateca.1937

Place madeSouth Dakota, United States, North America

Mediumpaper

Dimensions8 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (22.6 x 16.5 cm)

Credit LineMuesum of International Folk Art, gift of Helen M. Cahusac, A.1990.9.37

Object numberA.1990.9.37

Collections

United States and Canada

DescriptionHand-cut from blue-lined paper, mounted on blk. construction paper. Ten birds are in a tree w/ long slender fronds. Two clover-shaped blossoms are just above the two birds facing ea. other. Top birds wings joined in middle. Collected by Mable Morrow during 1937 when she was teaching the Santee Sioux.