Glass Links box belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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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.

This is a cut glass box (a) with a small pewter statue of a bison on its lid (b). The glass box is square with its four corners delineated by deep carved decorative channels in the glass. There is a channel along the right and left exterior edge of the box, and two second parallel channels about a centimeter inside the edge. There is a single channel along the front and back exterior of the box, about a centimeter inside the edge. On top of the lid (b) is a pewter statue of a bison with text embossed in the statue base that reads “FINE PEWTER.” There is a black plaque on the front of the box that is split into two section, top section on the front of the lid (b) and bottom section on the box (a).

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