Basketball with laces
- On View
- Sports Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
- Manufactured by
- Denkert Sporting Goods, American, 1900 - 1973
- Date
- 1930-1939
- Medium
- ink on leather and rubber
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 9 × 9 × 9 1/2 in. (22.9 × 22.9 × 24.1 cm)
- Description
- Denkert basketball, model BB77. The ball is light brown in color, has six panels with stitched ribs, and rawhide dark laces threaded through eighteen (18) holes at the top of the ball. The laces and top seam are outlined in stiches made with light-colored threads that have been covered in a dark coating. One panel has black text printed on it in different fonts that reads: [OFFICIAL / SIZE AND WEIGHT / Denkert / BB77]. At the side opposite of laces there is a small black rubber inlet valve used to inflate the ball.
- Place made
- Johnstown, Fulton County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment-Sports and Recreational
- Type
- basketballs
- Topic
- Basketball
- Sports
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2014.199
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.