A cane carved from a single piece of wood. Curved handle at top has a skull carved in relief on either side. Motifs engraved up and down the cane include dice, diamonds, crosses, hearts, and overlapping circles.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.312.291
A rectangular wooden cigar box with hinged lid. Text reading "EL PRODUCTO / QUEENS" is carved into the front side and the top of the lid, then filled in with black ink. Above the text is a medallion of a man in profile. Below the text is a lyre. The inside…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.72
This is a wood clapper instrument with black etched type on front and back. Consisting of three pieces of wood, two small rectangles are attached via thin metal strips to the large paddle-shaped base, one on each side. There is black type on both small…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.45.3
A crutch consisting of four pieces of wood held together with metal nails. Length of crutch is a single piece of wood split and warped to accomodate two pieces of wood in between the split that function as handles. Final piece of wood caps the crutch and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.312.293
Wooden field cradle constructed from a light tone wood and metal nails. Cradle consists of four sides with two slightly curved pieces that serve as a rocking base. The longer sides of the cradle feature a long wood board. The shorter sides of the cradle…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.312.4
Carved wooden hat block with a flat base and an asymmetrical curved upper form. There is a large circular hole at the center of the underside of the base.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.31
A wooden mallet used to shape and work hats owned by Yvonne DeVigne. The head of the mallet is cylindrical and covered in paper or rawhide. The handle of the mallet is carved wood. The handle narrows to a peg at the end that is inserted through the mallet…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.272.5
A wooden hat stand base (a) and form (b) painted white. The base is circular with one groove carved into the top of the base. A turned wooden dowel is screwed into the center of the base. The form is circular and tapers in toward the bottom where it…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.129ab
Wooden prosthetic leg or "peg leg," consisting of four variously shaped pieces of wood connected using metal bolts. Bottom of leg is flat and rectangular. On one side of leg is a long piece of wood that has carved notches at top. On opposite site of leg…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.312.292
Wooden school bench with a desk attached at the back. The seat is made of a single board, with a single slat forming an apron across the front. The seat back is three (1) horizontal slats. The desk is attached behind the top slat and is a single wooden…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.74.5
Wooden school desk, with the desk attached behind the chair. The chair seat is a single wooden board, with a single board forming an apron across the front. The chair back is three (3) horizontal wood slats. The desk top, a single board, is located behind…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.74.1
Wooden school desk, with the desk attached behind the chair. The chair seat is a single wooden board, with a single board forming an apron across the front. The chair back is three (3) horizontal wood slats. The desk top, a single board, is located behind…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.74.2
Wooden school desk, with the desk attached behind the chair. The chair seat is a single wooden board, with a single board forming an apron across the front. The chair back is three (3) horizontal wood slats. The desk top, a single board, is located behind…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.74.3
Wooden school desk, with the desk attached behind the chair. The chair seat is a single wooden board, with a single board forming an apron across the front. The chair back is three (3) horizontal wood slats. The desk top, a single board, is located behind…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.74.4
Wood and iron school desk, with the desk attached behind the seat. The chair seat is constructed of four (4) tightly fitted wooden boards. There appears to be a missing board at the front. The seat back consists of a single board and the top and three (3)…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.74.6
Wood and iron school desk with a foldable seat. The desk is attached at the back, behind the seat. The curved seat is made of five (5) close-fitting slats. Grooves cut into the sides of each slat allow them to link together like puzzle pieces. The seat…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.74.7
Wood and iron school desk with a foldable seat. The curved seat is made of four (4) close-fitting slats, and the seat back has five (5) slats. Grooves cut into the sides of each slat allow them to link together like puzzle pieces. The desk is attached at…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.74.8
A wooden table used at Cedar Grove plantation in Edgefield County, South Carolina. The four-legged table is made of yellow pine. The table top consists of three (3) machine-milled boards finished with scrub plane on the underside and with a cabinetmaker's…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2008.1
A lidded wooden trunk from the Jones-Hall-Sims House. The trunk is made from wide wooden planks nailed together at the corners. The truck had a hinged lid. The hinge is formed by narrow wooden bars nailed to the underside of the lid at each short end and a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.25.4
Woodrow Phoenix is a British comics artist, writer, editorial illustrator, graphic designer, font designer and author of children's books. Phoenix is best known for Rumble Strip, published in 2008, a non-fiction look at the difficult social issues arising…
Woody R. Clermont (born on June 2, 1970), is an American attorney and African-American judge in Broward County, Florida. Clermont made history becoming the first male Haitian-American judge in Broward. His election marked not only an achievement for the…
A piece of a wool blanket. The piece of wool is a beige square with frayed and tattered edges. There are a few pieces of fabric missing from one of the sides. There are a few small holes in the fabric. There is a white tag sewn onto the proper top right…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.17.4
