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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MUSEUM EXPANSION PROJECT
Pair of diorama boxes. Indian Burial, Chinook, with the printed label on the top of the box * Untitled (Grinding Corn). Both painted plaster or clay scenes behind glass, inside a painted wooden box. Both approximately 216x330x254 mm; 8 1/2x13x10 inches. Both commissioned by the Museum Extension Project, WPA. Circa 1936-40.
Operating in 23 states, the Museum Expansion Project of the WPA provided educational visual aids to schools, libraries, local museums, and other similar institutions. The MEP produced sets of dolls clothed in traditional cultural and historical costumes, sets of illustrative prints, and many craft items including models of agricultural and industrial implements, miniature furniture and these boxed dioramas scenes. Many of the artists and craftspeople working for the MEP went unattributed.
