Plastic and metal afro-pick manufactured by Eden Enterprise, Inc. Afro-hair pick has black plastic handle shaped like a raised hand in fist. In relief on plastic handle, reads [Eden/Christina MJ/MADE IN CHINA]. Teeth of pick are metal. Packaging is still…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.125.2
This card identifies the front page of Afro-independent (St. Paul, Minn. ; Minneapolis, Minn.), September 22, 1888. The Library of Congress preserves this dated newspaper issue in its Chronicling America collection. Publication place recorded in the…
Library of CongressCatalog sn86058058 · 1888-09-22 · edition 1
Joseph Edgar Foreman (born July 28, 1974), known by his stage name Afroman, is an American rapper, singer, and musician. His fourth studio album, The Good Times (2001), featured the singles "Because I Got High" and "Crazy Rap". "Because I Got High" was…
Postcard image of an engraving of an African man. Text on verso reads: "No. 10 TOUCOULEUR; d'apres une gravure originale publiee en 1853 dans "Esquisses Senegalaises" par David Boilat.; Reedition integrale Karthala 1984." Handwritten message and address on…
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog sova.eepa.1985-014_ref717
This gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of people gathering after church. There are two children standing on the left side of the church's porch while three women converse in the center. A woman wearing a hat and dress is standing on the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.310.48
A black-and-white photograph of Bishop John Richard Bryant shaking the hand of a sitting woman. Both are smiling. He is wearing a dark colored jacket and is bent at the waist and leaning on his left hand. Additional people watch in the background. No…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.141.40
Orginal caption reads, "After service Sunday Catholic Church Lagos. "Photoholm" - Lagos." Printed caption on verso reads, " Pictorial Post Card Lagos.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1992-004, Item EEPA 1992-004-025
Image of a gathering of men, women, and children in front of a building. A man and woman are central. Printed text on recto reads: "Angola - After The Marriage Ceremony, Tomba." Publisher's series title: "Africa" printed in red ink on recto.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA AO 1985-142091
A fractured landscape painting in acrylic and oil on four (4) sheets of paper mounted to board with mixed media. The artwork depicts ladders, houses, geometric shapes, birds, dogs, snakes, and other abstract forms on a cobalt blue background. In the upper…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.235
This is an abstract sculpture that consists of metal pieces welded and fastened together. The metal pieces are various sizes and shapes that are draped, twisted and wielded together over a rebar armature to create a roughly oblong shape. The sculpture…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.46
Afua Ava Pamela Cooper (born 8 November 1957) is a Jamaican-born Canadian historian. As a historian, "she has taught Caribbean cultural studies, history, women's studies and Black studies at Ryerson and York universities, at the University of Toronto and…
Afua Hirsch FRSL (born 1981) is a British writer and broadcaster. She has worked as a journalist for The Guardian newspaper, and was the Social Affairs and Education Editor for Sky News from 2014 until 2017. She is the author of the 2018 book Brit(ish): On…
Afua Richardson is an African-Native American artist. She did covers for five issues of Marvel's World of Wakanda and art for a short story backup in the first issue. Her comic, Genius, with writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman won Top Cow's 2008 Pilot…
Sterling silver pair of dangle "Agate" earrings with agate stones by Art Smith; designed circa 1940s-1950s and made between 1950s and 1960s. The body of each earring is made from a single piece of sterling silver, shaped and folded to create a modernistic…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2024.108.3ab
Agatha Bennett (1919–2006) was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective, alongside her mother-in-law, Delia Bennett. Her work is included in the collection of the High Museum of Art.
Cataloged as “Age Grade celebrants and their families in an Oba's compound for an intiation ceremony, South Ibie Age, Nigeria” (Negatives (photographic)).
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2016-007, Item EEPA 2016-007-4131
