Costume for Bahamas Junkanoo Revue, a junkanoo troupe in Miami
date: label: Date
content: 2015
name: label: Designed by
content: Wilshire Dames, Bahamian
notes: label: Description
content: A full man's costume for the Bahamas Junkanoo Revue, a junkanoo troupe in Miami, Florida. The costume is gold, with elaborately beaded pieces in a red, white, blue, and yellow design. It is trimmed all the way around in a row of yellow feathers, red feathers, and finally light blue and white ostrich feathers, with large plumes of red and black ostrich feathers at the top. It is comprised of the following pieces:
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content: 2015.140.1 head piece
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content: 2015.140.2ab wrist cuffs
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content: 2015.140.3 chest piece
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content: 2015.140.4 front apron
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content: 2015.140.5ab hip extensions
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content: 2015.140.6 back piece
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content: 2015.140.7 harness
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content: 2015.140.8 shirt
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content: 2015.140.9 skirt
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content: 2015.140.10 pants
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content: 2015.140.11ab shoes
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content: The costume is composed of aluminum rods, cardboard, Styrofoam, steel wire, tissue, sequins, decorative paper, feathers, paint, beads and contact cement.
place: label: Cultural Place
content: Bahamas, Caribbean, North and Central America
label: Place made
content: Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
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content: African diaspora
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content: Clothing and dress
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content: Costume
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content: Costume design
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content: Dance
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content: Folklife
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content: Holidays and festivals
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content: Identity
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content: Music
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content: Ornamentation
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Clothing - Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.140
objectType: label: Type
content: ceremonial costume
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown – Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: aluminum, cardboard, Styrofoam (TM), wire, tissue paper, sequin, paper, feathers, paint, beads, and rubber cement
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (Full Costume- Approximate): 144 × 96 × 48 in. (365.8 × 243.8 × 121.9 cm)