Object Details
- Wolof artist
- Label Text
- Bracelets were essential to a woman’s collection, and a simple version was often a Wolof woman’s first acquisition. Like necklaces and earrings, bracelets come in a wide variety of inventive styles, from the braided and twisted designs, which required the female client’s presence to designate the tightness of the twist, to delicate, European-inspired flowers, to Islamic-inspired half-moon bracelets.
- Description
- Two-piece gold-plated silver alloy hinged bracelet in stylized butterfly and leaves design with applied globules in lines and in groupings of seven on solid hammered metal base. The back half of the bracelet has hammered flat discs applied at the center of the leaf pairs and no applied globules. The bracelet is missing one hinge pin.
- Provenance
- Marian Johnson, purchased in Dakar, Senegal, 1963-late 20th century to 2012
- Exhibition History
- Good As Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 24, 2018-February 2, 2020; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, September 16, 2020-January 3, 2021
- Published References
- Maples, Amanda, Ashby Johnson, Marian, and Dumouchelle, Kevin D., 2018, Good As Gold, Washington, D.C.: NMAfA, Smithsonian, p. 73, illustrated p. 76 and on cover
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- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Marian Ashby Johnson
- Mid-20th century
- Object number
- 2012-18-162
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Jewelry
- Medium
- Gold-plated silver alloy
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 6.1 x 6.4 x 2 cm (2 3/8 x 2 1/2 x 3/4 in.)
- Geography
- Senegal
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- National Museum of African Art Collection
- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- Adornment
- Female use
- butterfly
- male
- Record ID
- nmafa_2012-18-162
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys7361dc53e-c131-4fc5-86b9-e95afd6e2d09
