Samoa
date: label: date made
content: 1980s
name: label: maker
content: Akwell Industries
notes: label: Description
content: This Samoa brand condom was manufacture by Akwell Industries Inc. of Dothan, Alabama during the 1980s. The package’s cover features a picture of an island beach at sunset, with palm leaves in the foreground and the ocean in the background. The cover touts the prophylactic as being “In South Sea Color.” The back’s text reads “Embark on a new adventure with this exotic prophylactic in South Sea color…each package contains one of these colors…Sunset Red/Midnight Black/Dawn Pink/Morning Blue/Siesta Green/Colors are blended—will not rub off./Buy several packages for an exotic experience./New Freedom and Pleasure.” The tagline of “Buy several packages for an exotic experience” encouraged visitors to see condoms in a playful light.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
label: Subject
content: Sex
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0416.044
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0416.044
label: accession number
content: 1989.0416
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Condom
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, condom, novelty
label: Other Terms
content: Condom; Contraceptive Devices
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 5.3975 cm x 3.81 cm x .635 cm