Toys made by fourteen-year-old Stanisław Ścibor-Marchocki, from tree bark, straw and cardboard

Toys made by fourteen-year-old Stanisław Ścibor-Marchocki, from tree bark, straw and cardboard

They were a Christmas present for two younger girls from a Polish family with whom his family shared a house in exile in Achinsk in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia. The decorations were hung on a Christmas tree.

Material: paper, straw, tree bark
Technique: cutting, manual processing, drawing
Place and date of creation: Siberia, 1941
Dimensions: miscellaneous
File number: MIIWS/RD/4104
Gift from Agnieszka Rudzińska

 

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