Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
French Folk Art
October 28, 1977 – June 11, 1978
On view are about 125 18th- and 19th-century objects from the Musee des Arts et Tradition in Paris. They include tools and equipment, the accoutrements of festivals and religious ceremonies, objects from daily life, and costumes and wearing apparel—for example, santons, a tobacco grater, marionettes, earthernware, ia cradle, an eel gig, a bride's basket, a ribbon loom, a cow bell and woodcuts.
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