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MUSEUM OBJECT
Musical Instruments

Custom Mapex hanging 14-inch tom drum owned by Will Calhoun

2005

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A custom made Mapex "Orion" 14-inch floor tom drum played by Will Calhoun in performances with the band Living Colour. The shell is highly polished silver colored metal with an overlay of etched steel featuring bands of Egyptian art designs of human…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.14.6
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Musical Instruments

Custom Mapex hanging 16-inch tom drum owned by Will Calhoun

2005

FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG

A custom made Mapex "Orion" 16-inch floor tom drum played by Will Calhoun in performances with the band Living Colour. The shell is highly polished silver colored metal with an overlay of etched steel featuring bands of Egyptian art designs of human…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.14.3
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Musical Instruments

Custom snare drum owned by Will Calhoun

2005

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A custom made Mapex Black Panther 14-inch snare drum played by Will Calhoun in performances with the band Living Colour. The shell is highly polished silver colored metal with an overlay of etched steel featuring bands of Egyptian art designs of human…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.14.7
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ARCHIVE FILE
Archival documents & files

Customer Correspondence - Jewelry Orders — Business Records

1969-1970

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Cataloged as “Customer Correspondence - Jewelry Orders”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2022.64_ref42
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Historical photographs & visual records

Customer in Ife-Olu [Solaru]'s bar, Ilishan- Remo, Nigeria

1988-08

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Original text on slide reads, "Customer in Ife-Olu [Solaru]'s bar".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1612
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Historical photographs & visual records

Customers and vendors at Grand Marche

1987

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Image used in the video production entitled,"Patterns of Life: West-African Strip Weaving Traditions," produced by Caribiner, Inc. under contract for the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1987. Image taken by Gavin Ashworth, 1987.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1991-005, Item EEPA 1991-050182
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Historical photographs & visual records

Customers near imported dishes and clothes, Ikenne, Nigeria

1973-11-25

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Original text on slide reads, "Customers near imported dishes and clothes at Ibeju-Ode market. Sunday".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1391
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Customized Sigma Gamma Rho Converse sneakers for member MC Lyte

2005-2010

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A pair of gold and blue satin Converse sneakers customized for Sigma Gamma Rho sorority member MC Lyte. The shoes have white rubber toe caps, white rubber with black rubber stripes around the bottom sides, and a black rubber rectangle with the words "ALL…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.118.3ab
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Historical photographs & visual records

Customs and Immigration sign at Ramatlabama, Botswana

1983

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Cataloged as “Customs and Immigration sign at Ramatlabama, Botswana” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-065835
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Historical photographs & visual records

Customs Wharf Beira

[ca. 1900]

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Printed caption on recto reads: "Customs Wharf, Beira.".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA MZ 2012-001-1462
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Historical photographs & visual records

Customs Wharf, Lagos

ca. 1923-1925

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Cataloged as “Customs Wharf, Lagos” (Photographic prints).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1997-006, Item EEPA.1997-006-0005
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Historical photographs & visual records

Cut-out of Elder in wooden chair, Shagamu, Nigeria

Date not recorded

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Original text on slide reads, "Cut-out of Elder in wooden chair. #123".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-0949
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Textiles and Quilts

Cut pile rug from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

1979-1981

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A rectangular cut pile rug from the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. The rug features the Greek letters of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, [?ST], in red against a white background. The rug has a twine warp and a yarn weft that is visible on the reverse. The back of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.91.4
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Historical photographs & visual records

Cut rice drying on a pole

1978

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Donor notes read: "Cut rice drying on a pole. Taken Nov. 1978 during P.C. Agriculture Training at Mabonto. The date on the slide is FEB 79.".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1362
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Historical photographs & visual records

Cut Tin Roof of Building, Imiekuri, Okpella, Etsako, Edo State, Nigeria

1972

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Cataloged as “Cut Tin Roof of Building, Imiekuri, Okpella, Etsako, Edo State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2016-007, Item EEPA 2016-007-0714
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Slavery and Freedom Objects

Cutter mattock

before 1863

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A cutter mattock with a long wooden handle from the Laurel Hill Plantation, South Carolina. The grubbing tool has a head with a combination iron axe blade and an adze, separated by a central eye. The wooden handle is threaded through the eye and has…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.10
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Historical photographs & visual records

Cutting and stacking sisal before processing, Tanzania

1966-08

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Cataloged as “Cutting and stacking sisal before processing, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0565
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Historical photographs & visual records

[Cutting and stacking sisal on estate near Tanga], Tanzania

1966-08

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Cataloged as “[Cutting and stacking sisal on estate near Tanga], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0232
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Historical photographs & visual records

Cutting sisal before processing, Tanzania

1966-08

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Cataloged as “Cutting sisal before processing, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0213
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Historical photographs & visual records

[Cutting sisal in fields], Tanzania

1966-08

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Cataloged as “[Cutting sisal in fields], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0230
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Historical photographs & visual records

Cutting sisal on estate in Tanga region on coast, Tanzania

1966-08

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Cataloged as “Cutting sisal on estate in Tanga region on coast, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0359
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Historical photographs & visual records

[Cutting sisal on Lugongo sisal estate near Tanga], Tanzania

1966-08

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Cataloged as “[Cutting sisal on Lugongo sisal estate near Tanga], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0614
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Historical photographs & visual records

Cutting sisal on sisal estate near Tanga, Tanzania

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Cutting sisal on sisal estate near Tanga, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0554
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