Chest piece for Bahamas Junkanoo Revue costume
date: label: Date
content: 2015
name: label: Designed by
content: Wilshire Dames, Bahamian
notes: label: Description
content: The chest piece, or collar, of a man's costume for the Bahamas Junkanoo Revue, a junkanoo troupe in Miami, Florida.
label: Description
content: The chest piece has a circular neck hole and rests across the shoulders and chest of the wearer. It has an elaborate yellow, white, red, and blue design with gold and blue beaded trim and clear-colored gemstones throughout. The area around the neck is yellow, with two rows of blue beaded trim bordering a row gemstones. The main part of the piece has white tooth or claw shapes extending across a red field. The white shapes have center gold and red gemstones and are bordered in gold and blue beaded trim. The outside border of the red field is also beaded with rows of gold and blue beads. Alternating blue and white petal shapes extend out from the shoulders, also with gold and blue beaded trim and center gold gemstones. At the front center of the chest piece, the collar extends down into a point. At the center of the point is a red tear-dropped shape section with a center round gemstone and bordered in blue beads. Clear gemstone extend from the red section into a yellow center piece, bordered in blue beads.
place: label: Place made
content: Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, North and Central America
label: Cultural Place
content: Bahamas, Caribbean, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: African diaspora
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Costume
label: Topic
content: Costume design
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Folklife
label: Topic
content: Holidays and festivals
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Ornamentation
setName: label: See more items in
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: 2015.140.3
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, sequin, paper, paint, Glass bead, plastic, glue, felt, glitter, and masking tape
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22 × 27 1/2 in. (55.9 × 69.9 cm)