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Commemorative bell from the 1883 Swiss National Exhibition
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Terrell, Mary Church, American, 1863 - 1954
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- metal, string
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 5 3/4 × 5 15/16 × 5 15/16 in. (14.6 × 15.1 × 15.1 cm)
- Description
- Commemorative bell from the 1883 Swiss National Exhibition. The metal bell has a rectangular handle at top. There is star detailing around the top border. The center front has raised relief text which reads [DIPLOME / L’EXPOSITION / NATIONALE SUISS / ZURICH 1883]. Below this [ROSA] is engraved on the rim. Each side of the bell has a central raised design, including a wheat sheaf on the back. There is a yellow string tied around the base of the clapper.
- Place used
- Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Europe
- Place collected
- Highland Beach, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Mary Church Terrell Family Archive
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment-Ceremonial Tools
- Topic
- Education
- Government
- International affairs
- Travel
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Ray and Jean Langston in memory of Mary Church and Robert Terrell
- Object number
- A2017.13.1.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
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Healing doll
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 1880s
- On ViewCommunity/Third Floor, 3 050
- Exhibition
- Making a Way Out of No Way
- Medium
- wood, metal
- Dimensions
- 8 5/8 × 2 3/8 × 1 7/8 in. (21.9 × 6 × 4.8 cm)
- Description
- Hand-carved wooden doll. Figure has human-like body, with carved legs, a head, and arms. Figure's arms are conncected to body using nails at shoulders. Arms have ability to move forward and backward. Figure appears to have some sort of headwear carved in to the top of the figures head. A rusted nail protrudes out of the figures mouth area.
- Cultural Place
- Georgia, United States, Sea Islands, North and Central America
- Classification
- Religious and Sacred Objects
- Tools and Equipment-Ceremonial Tools
- Type
- voodoo dolls
- Topic
- African diaspora
- Folklife
- Religion
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Oprah Winfrey
- Object number
- 2014.312.10
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
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Sword from a Freemason Lodge
- Created by
- Freemasonry, American, founded 1730
- Owned by
- Johnson, LeRoy, American
- Date
- 20th century
- Medium
- metal and enamel
- Dimensions
- H x W: 35 x 5 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. (88.9 x 14 x 3.2 cm)
- Description
- A Freemasonry Lodge sword made of silver metal, with a black enamel handle featuring a silver metal cross. The sword belonged to LeRoy Johnson and is accompanied by a metal sheath and leather and cloth carrying case.
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment-Ceremonial Tools
- Type
- swords
- Topic
- Communities
- Freemasonry
- Men
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2011.166.2.5a-d
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
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Ceremonial basket adorned with cowrie shells
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 2015
- Medium
- fiber and cowrie shell
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 5 5/8 × 6 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (14.3 × 16.5 × 16.5 cm)
- Caption
- This cowrie shell basket was created by artisans in Mossuril, Mozambique, in 2015 to hold soil from the region, which was then deposited at the site of the São José shipwreck. After a solemn ceremony on May 30, 2015, the village and tribal elder in Mossuril, Evano Nhogache, entrusted this basket to Lonnie Bunch, instructing him to place the enclosed soil as close to the wreck site as possible to symbolically reconnect those Mozambicans who were lost with their homeland. He then asked that the basket become part of the collections of the NMAAHC. On June 2, 2015, at a second memorial in Clifton, the soil was poured into the ocean near the wreck site. The slave ship São José Paquete Africa sank on December 3, 1794 off the coast of South Africa. It had left Mozambique 24 days prior bound for Maranhão, Brazil.
- Description
- A basket created by artisans in Mossuril, Mozambique for ceremonial transport of soil from Mozambique to the site of the São José shipwreck in Cape Town, South Africa. The round basket is in two parts, a base and lid, and is made from worked plant material. Cowrie shells placed closely together adorn and cover the outside of both the top and bottom of basket.
- Place made
- Mossuril, Nampula, Mozambique, Africa
- Place used
- Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
- Tools and Equipment-Ceremonial Tools
- Type
- baskets
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2016.168ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
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Leather bag with tools, whistles, and shells
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 20th Century
- Medium
- Leather with cowrie shells, wood and iron
- Dimensions
- H x W (Pouch): 9 5/8 x 9 7/16 in. (24.5 x 24 cm)
- H (Strap): 24 13/16 in. (63 cm)
- H (Large Whistle): 13 1/16 in. (33.1 cm)
- H (Small Whistle): 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm)
- H (Wooden carving): 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm)
- H x W: 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm)
- Description
- The object consists of a dark brown tooled leather bag with attachments of iron tools, wooden whistles, and cowrie shells.
- The bag is made from two pieces of leather. A large piece forms the front and back of the bag, and a narrow strip (about 2 cm. in width) is stitched between the front and back to create the bag’s thickness, as well as serving as a portion of the bag’s strap. Leather fringe with cowrie shells knotted onto some fringe ends is sewn into the front seam along the bottom. The narrow strip of leather extends above the bag about 20 cm. on each side. On the proper left side it is looped back on itself with a fringed leather strip attached to the end. Each element of the fringe ends in a cowrie shell, secured with a knot near the bottom. On the proper right side the strip is no longer doubled back on itself, although the original fold is apparent. Leather fringe ending in cowrie shells, two wooden whistles, a small wooden carving, and a leather pouch containing tweezers and two iron picks are looped around this side, but move freely on it because the strip is not doubled back. A red leather strip has been threaded through the folded over strip on the proper left side and is knotted onto the strip on the proper right side; together these strips form the carrying strap.
- The bag was originally stitched together with what appears to be animal-product thread. There are at least three campaigns of thread repairs, especially along the bottom of the bag; repair threads are red, green, and tan in color. The bag was closed with a "button" on a leather strap sewn into the seam at bottom center; the button fits through a hole in a strap stitched to the bottom center of the flap.
- The bag is tooled on the front face, including the flap. On the main portion of the bag the design consists of four squares, each square incised with a pairs of diagonal lines forming "x"s. A half-round sunburst-type stamp provides decoration around the perimeter, with a double row down the center dividing the squares in two parts. Tooling on the flap consists of more half-sunbursts, and it curves around the perimeter following the shape of the flap.
- Three leather pouches, each containing an iron tweezer and pair of twisted iron picks, are attached to the strap on each side of the bag and the center closing strip respectively. The ends of all three iron items were made with loops, which are attached to thin circular iron loops that are in turn tied to the bag with the leather straps. The proper right leather pouch is colored black and its attachment strap is braided, while the other two pouches are red and the straps are flat strips of leather.The smaller of the two wooden whistles has inscribed designs, while the larger one is plain. The plain whistle has cracks repaired with a resin-like material.
- Place collected
- Burkina Faso, West Africa, Africa
- Classification
- Religious and Sacred Objects
- Tools and Equipment-Ceremonial Tools
- Type
- bags (containers)
- Topic
- Africa
- Clothing and dress
- Medicine
- Religion
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2008.10.9
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
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Olympic Torch from the 1996 Atlanta games signed by Muhammad Ali
- Designed by
- Malcolm Grear Designers, American, founded 1960
- Manufactured by
- Hillerich & Bradsby Co., American, founded 1884
- Erie Plating Company, American, founded 1925
- Signed by
- Ali, Muhammad, American, 1942 - 2016
- Commissioned by
- Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, American, 1991 - 1997
- Date
- 1996
- On ViewCommunity/Third Floor, 3 052
- Exhibition
- Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
- Medium
- aluminum , wood and brass (alloy) , ink
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 31 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (80.6 x 6.4 x 6.4 cm)
- Description
- A 1996 Olympic torch from the Atlanta Summer Games signed on the middle handle by Muhammad Ali. The signatures reads: [Muhammad Ali / 1996] in blue marker. The torch features 22 aluminum "reeds", one for each Olympic Games up to 1996. Additionally, it features two gold plated brass rings, the first displaying the inscription: [Atlanta 1996] with the Atlanta Games emblem and the second featuring the names of the host cities of the Olympic Games of the modern era. The torch was designed to be grasped in the middle with the handle made of Georgian pecan wood.
- Place used
- Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment-Ceremonial Tools
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2012.62.6.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions