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The Middle Passage - African Holocaust Brooch Brooch
This is a Brooch. It was designed by Phyllis Bowdwin and manufactured by Who Deserves It More Than You?. It is dated 1993–96 and we acquired it in 1997. Its medium is silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Phyllis Bowdwin passes down African American history through her jewelry designs. She created this brooch to commemorate the transportation of nearly 13 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th-19th centuries. The brooch references a 1788 plan of the Brooks ship used by abolitionists of the period to raise awareness for the sadistic designs of the transatlantic slave trade.
It is credited Museum purchase from Monet Jewelry Fund.
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 5.5 × 10.1 × 1 cm (2 3/16 in. × 4 in. × 3/8 in.)
Cite this object as
The Middle Passage - African Holocaust Brooch Brooch; Designed by Phyllis Bowdwin (American, b. 1941); Manufactured by Who Deserves It More Than You?; USA; silver; H x W x D: 5.5 × 10.1 × 1 cm (2 3/16 in. × 4 in. × 3/8 in.); Museum purchase from Monet Jewelry Fund; 1997-3-2
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Duro Olowu Selects.
