Watch fob made of ivory beads owned by Lew Snowden: Museum Object and Cultural History
Watch fob made of ivory beads owned by Lew Snowden: Date: 1870s. Created by: Unidentified. Owned by: Lew Snowden, American, 1848 - 1923.
The object in the museum catalogue
A watch fob owned by Lew Snowden. The fob is made of twenty-one (21) ivory beads and a metal “T” shaped clasp on a leather cord. The beads are different shapes and sizes. Each bead has a geometric pattern incised on it.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1870s
- Created by: Unidentified
- Owned by: Lew Snowden, American, 1848 - 1923
- Type: fobs
- Medium: ivory, leather, metal
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 7 1/16 × 13/16 × 13/16 in. (18 × 2 × 2 cm)
- Place used: Knox County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Clothing and dress
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Fashion
- Topic: Folk (Music)
- Topic: Free communities of color
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Music
- Object number: 2024.65.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks from the Snowden Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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