<I>I Sang The Blues Black: 9 Holes</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2019
name: label: Created by
content: Adebunmi Gbadebo, American, born 1992
notes: label: Description
content: This framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and varying degrees of indigo dye mixed with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Plantation. The edges of the portrait are rough. In the top left quadrant is an intense patch of indigo dye. In this same area are two pieces of paper with black text.
label: Description
content: The first piece of paper refers to a slavery rating system and is divided into two columns and the text "prime hand," "half hand," "Supersnnuated," "Overseer's nurse," and "prime hand" repeated again several times. Diagonally below and to the right is the second piece of paper with names: [[illegible] / Rachel / Dolly / Phillis / Joseph / Selina / Mary / [illegible] / Be- / Ga- ].
place: label: Place depicted
content: Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: African diaspora
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Barbershops
label: Topic
content: Hair
label: Topic
content: Men
label: Topic
content: Slavery
label: Topic
content: Women
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: I Sang The Blues Blackest: 18 Holes
label: Portfolio/Series
content: True Blue
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center and generously supported by American Express
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.42.1
objectType: label: Type
content: multimedia works
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Adebunmi Gbadebo
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: mixed media: human hair, cotton, rice paper, denim, indigo, dye
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (overall install): 93 × 78 × 3 in. (236.2 × 198.1 × 7.6 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (each frame): 30 × 25 × 2 1/2 in. (76.2 × 63.5 × 6.4 cm)