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\"MexicanPapel picado<\/em>\u00a0is a traditional Mexican folk art of colorful tissue paper cut with intricate designs.\u00a0 Artists string the individual papers to form banners that are used for a number of holidays and festivals.\u00a0 For the Day of the Dead, banners with skeleton themes, like this one, are hung around the offering and often in public squares as well.\u00a0 Artists cut the paper by hand with tiny, very sharp chisels.\u00a0 They follow a pattern and place a lead plate at the bottom of a stack of paper, so they can cut through as many as 50 sheets at once.\u00a0 Cut plastic instead of paper is a new innovation that allows the decorations to survive outdoors in the wind and rain.<\/p>\n

This piece of\u00a0papel picado<\/em>\u00a0is currently on exhibit in\u00a0Life After Death: The Day of the Dead in Mexico<\/em><\/a>\u00a0with a number of others in paper and plastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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