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Paño Art
1980s
Handkerchief art
This example of paño art depicts a "low rider" car, two hearts, and a couple kissing. Paño may have started as prison art among Latinos incarcerated in Southwestern prisons in the 1940s. Such articles serve as a medium of exchange, as tokens of affection, and as symbols of ethnic pride.
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