The cut-paper pictures referred to are the ones which are reproduced
in this book, and which are still preserved. Anna's father finally
received them. Mrs. Deming and other members of the Winslow family
seem to have excelled in this art, and are remembered as usually
bringing paper and scissors when at a tea-drinking, and assiduously
cutting these pictures with great skill and swiftness and with
apparently but slight attention to the work. This form of decorative
art was very fashionable in colonial days, and was taught under the
ambitious title of Papyrotamia.