Shadowbox Artwork
name: label: Donor Name
content: Jake Homiak
notes: label: Notes
content: Shadowbox. Background is a black and white photo of a black man in jacket and tie, Marcus Garvey?, with a reproduction of the front page of the newspaper "The Negro World", New York, Vol. X, No. 1, February 19, 1921. "Negro World" was the newspaper of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA). Interior border of shadowbox is kente cloth. The man's photo is framed by an oval of dried vine, into which are added shells, pins, and pieces of iron, including a padlock, and hasp, and a nail set. The oval is sitting on black chiffon. There are 3 pins and 1 pocket watch in each corner.
label: Notes
content: Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist and leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, which sought to unify and connect people of African descent worldwide. In the United States, he was a noted civil rights activist who founded the "Negro World" newspaper, a shipping company called Black Star Line and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, or UNIA, a fraternal organization of black nationalists. See: History.com Editors, 2021. "Marcus Garvey". HISTORY. Available at: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/marcus-garvey. Accessed 14 March 2022.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2073991
label: USNM Number
content: E434665-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Artwork
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 55 cm
label: Width
content: 45 cm
label: Height
content: 6 cm