papier mache

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Holding yellow flowers and rattles, the shamans walked around a papier-mache globe as they performed a cleansing ritual.

From Reuters

Dominated by the immense Douglas fir table, the room features several Chihuly “Chandeliers,” a shelf holding dozens of papier-mâché circus masks, glass “Cylinders” oriented to highlight outside light and an eight-oar shell built by the Pococks.

From Seattle Times

Parsons’ fans often leave guitar picks, handwritten letters, empty whiskey bottles and, at least one time, a life-size papier-mâché statue of the singer.

From Los Angeles Times

Villarreal has spent more than a decade working in “cartonería,” as the craft of creating papier-mache sculptures is known.

From Seattle Times

On another occasion, he “foraged,” as he put it, a herd of shopping carts, spray-painted them gold and filled them with ads for fake products and papier-mâché pills.

From New York Times