Necklace
name: label: maker
content: Scherr, Mary Ann
notes: label: Description
content: Trach necklace—designed to cover a tracheotomy—embellished with gold, silver, black sapphires, and opal. This was designed and crafter by Mary Ann Scherr (1921-2016), an Ohio designer who studied at Akron University, Cleveland Institute of Art, Akron Art Institute, and Kent State University, who worked as a cartographer during World War II, an automobile designer at the Ford Motor Company, and a children’s book illustrator and toy designer. In 1963, she became a professor of Arts and Metals at Kent State University. Scherr believed that: “When possible, jewelry should have a function and not just be ornamental.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Woman
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: 1979.0488.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0488
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0488.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Necklace, Tracheal, Batch of
label: Other Terms
content: Necklace, Tracheal, Batch of; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall (chains spread wide): 1 in x 13 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 34.29 cm x 4.445 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall (collapsed: 1 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 5.715 cm x 4.445 cm