Object Details
- Designer
- Phyllis Bowdwin, American, b. 1941
- Manufacturer
- Who Deserves It More Than You?
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Modeled after the diagram of a slave trade ship seen from above, showing the lower deck densely packed with a cargo of enslaved people; five cowrie shells hang from the lower edge.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Monet Jewelry Fund
- 1993–96
- Accession Number
- 1997-3-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- jewelry
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- brooch
- Type
- brooch
- Medium
- brass, cowrie shell
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 6.5 x 10.2 x 1.3 cm (2 9/16 x 4 x 1/2in.)
- made in
- 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_1997-3-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq446f6941f-5b16-48f1-ba1e-c9899a61196b
