The Middle Passage - African Holocaust Brooch
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Object Details
- Designer
- Phyllis Bowdwin, American, b. 1941
- Manufacturer
- Who Deserves It More Than You?
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Modeled after a diagram of a slave trade ship seen from above, showing the lower deck densely packed with a cargo of enslaved people; five silver heads in profile hang from the bottom edge of the brooch.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Monet Jewelry Fund
- 1993–96
- Accession Number
- 1997-3-2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- jewelry
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Brooch
- Type
- Brooch
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 5.5 × 10.1 × 1 cm (2 3/16 in. × 4 in. × 3/8 in.)
- manufactured in
- New York, New York, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1997-3-2
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq448b13e08-412d-4ba7-8b44-2000ed99b50f
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