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Starland Flag

1987

Coushatta, Red River Parish, Louisiana, 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 painting titled, Starland Flag, by John Williams. The flag is painted on both sides of a rectangular piece of plywood. The front of the flag is white with seven (7) black, red, yellow, blue, red, black, and orange stripes that run horizontally across. In the top left corner of the flag are two concentric circles; the interior circle is white and the exterior circle is orange. Around the exterior orange circle are six (6) stars. Counter clockwise from the top of the circle, the six (6) pointed stars are blue, red, yellow, red, orange and black. The back of the flag is white with three (3) orange, red and blue stripes. In the top right corner of the flag are two concentric circles; the interior circle is black and the exterior circle is yellow. Around the exterior yellow circle are five (5) stars.

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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — original record ↗

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Catalog reference: 2017.68.19

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