Button
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Attributed to
content: Agostino Brunias, Italian, ca. 1730–1796
label: For
content: Toussaint L'Ouverture
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Button depicting scene with three figures in a palm tree-filled landscape conversing. Two men wear native West Indies garments of skirts; one wears a red feathered crown; the other holds a bow and carries a quiver of arrows on his back. Woman on the left wears a Western skirt with no shirt and a red scarf on head; her back is towards the viewer and she carries a basket of flowers.
place: label: place depicted
content: Haiti
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of R. Keith Kane from the Estate of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1949-94-4
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Button
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Gouache paint on tin verre fixé, ivory (backing), glass, gilt metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 1 x 3.7 cm (3/8 x 1 7/16 in.)