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Earrings featuring a portrait of Assata Shakur

2015

Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A pair of "fab" earrings. The earrings are on a cardboard tag. It has a pale cheetah print background. There is a pink circle in the middle with a pink border with a 3-D effect. There are smaller grey and white circles going around the pink circle. The word [fab] is printed inside the pink circle with black ink and there is a hole at the top of the tag. Underneath the circle there is a "fab" website. Below, in a white background it reads [visit lovemyfab @] with logos for Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. The earrings have gold fish hook backs. The earrings are a large rectangle with a sepia portrait of Assata Shakur. She is holding a sign with the numbers [97379]. The word [POLICE] is partially showing behind the numbers. The images has a clear plastic cover over it. The backs of the earrings are a bronze metallic color.

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Catalog reference: 2015.251.14.10abc

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