Whatnot Cabinet ca. 1929 George Farris carved and constructed wood with painted paper Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum

Whatnot Cabinet

ca. 1929 George Farris carved and constructed wood with painted paper

Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum

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"The folk object stands outside both time and space. It signifies historicity and otherness...
The objects are less objects of ownership than of symbolic intercession, like ancestors. The marginal object stands outside the myth of progress embodied in modernity."
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