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
- Gold-plated silver alloy three-part hinged bracelet with central stylized filigree butterfly and raised floral filigree pendant. The majority of the bracelet is flattened and curved metal, rounded at the hinge ends and decorated with circles of twisted wire in two rows around the edges and nested chevrons of applied, twisted wire with central globules. The bracelet is missing one of the front hinge pins.
- 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
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- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Marian Ashby Johnson
- Mid-20th century
- Object number
- 2012-18-166
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Jewelry
- Medium
- Gold-plated silver alloy
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 6.6 x 6.6 x 3.1 cm (2 5/8 x 2 5/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
- Geography
- Senegal
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- National Museum of African Art Collection
- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- Adornment
- Female use
- butterfly
- male
- floral
- flower
- Record ID
- nmafa_2012-18-166
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys751f92358-eb0a-4989-bd06-f1ca6b37fa63
