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The Kabuto-Base Butterfly
 
This page is being used to collect information about the history of the paperfolding design known as the Kabuto-Base Butterfly. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

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1960

As far as I know this design first appears in 'Origami: The Oriental Art of Paper Folding' by Harry C Helfman, which was published by Platt and Munk Co Inc in New York in 1960.

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1965

The same design also appears in 'The World of Origami' by Isao Honda, which was published in the USA by Japan Publications Trading Company in 1965.

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