Object Details
- REAL Skateboards
- Description (Brief)
- Hanging Klansman skate deck created by Jim Thiebaud for Real Skateboards with original artwork by Natas Kaupas.The deck is a natural wood maple laminate with the REAL Skateboards logo sticker on the top surface with the addition of a nest at the top of the sticker and a dove flying off to the left. The bottom surface has the black and white drawing of a Ku Klux Klansman hanging from a tree with a US flag in his hand. The tree has a heart carved in the middle of the trunk with "Thiebaud" carved underneath. The bird's nest is at the top branch of the tree with the flying dove off to the left at the top of the deck.
- This deck graphic was created after a culturally diverse group of skaters had just given a skate demo in the deep South and were confronted by an angry group of locals. Skaters Jim Thiebaud and Natas Kaupus drew on that experience and broke away from the standard cartoon type deck graphics becoming one of the first companies to begin expressing their political and social views through their skatedeck art.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2019.0225.01
- accession number
- 2019.0225
- catalog number
- 2019.0225.01
- Object Name
- skate deck
- skatedeck
- Physical Description
- wood, maple (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 in x 9 3/4 in x 31 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 24.765 cm x 80.01 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Sports & Leisure
- National Museum of American History
- name of sport
- skateboarding
- web subject
- civil rights
- Record ID
- nmah_1968763
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b5-016c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
