Untitled (Sikolo Brathwaite, Orange Portrait)

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

A color photograph portrait of Sikolo Brathwaite wearing a beaded headpiece designed by Carolee Prince. The Grandassa model is depicted from the shoulders up, against an orange background. She is shown in profile, facing the left edge of the image, with her head turned slightly towards the viewer. Her shoulders are nude, and she is wearing an elaborate headpiece constructed from wired white, pink, orange, and black seed and pony beads. The base of the headpiece is formed from beaded, vertical, radiating spokes fitted to the crown of Brathwaite’s head. The vertical spokes are divided by three horizontal bands of white and black seed beads forming a square lattice. The lattice is divided into four differently colored sections. The band at the top of the crown terminates in a horizontal band of a single row of white seed beads.

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