Object Details
- Label Text
- Bracelets were essential to a woman’s collection, and a simple version was often a Wolof woman’s first acquisition. Like necklaces and earrings, bracelets come in a wide variety of inventive styles, from the braided and twisted designs, which required the female client’s presence to designate the tightness of the twist, to delicate, European-inspired flowers, to Islamic-inspired half-moon bracelets.
- Description
- Two-piece hinged bracelet with slanted diamond pattern in applied globules with alternating solid bands, divided by parallel lines of twisted wire. The top and bottom of the bracelet is lined with twisted wire. The hinge pin has a large loop that projects from the top of e bracelet.
- Provenance
- Marian Johnson, purchased in Dakar, Senegal, 1972 to 2012
- Exhibition History
- African Mosaic: Selections from the Permanent Collection, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., November 19, 2013–August 12, 2019 (installed June 12, 2015-August 1, 2017)
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Wolof artist
- Date
- Mid-20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Marian Ashby Johnson
- Medium
- Gold
- Dimensions
- D x Diam: 2.5 x 6.7 cm (15/16 x 2 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Jewelry
