Patch for the Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club uniform patch. The patch is a circular shape with a yellow background and black thread designs. The exterior edge is black. The center has a yellow background. At top black thread lettering reads [Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club]. Below the text is a design of a fort. At the center left there is a set of hockey sticks crossed with a puck between them. At the center right there is a cannon. Black thread text at the bottom reads [Washington D.C.]. The back of the patch is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: after 1978
• Distributed by: Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club, American, founded 1978
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Type: patches (costume accessories)
• Medium: thread and cloth
• Dimensions: H x W: 3 15/16 × 3 7/8 in. (10 × 9.9 cm)
• Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Hockey
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Sports
• Topic: Youth
• Object number: 2019.67.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Neal Henderson, Founder and Coach of the Fort Dupont Hockey Program
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Fort Dupont Hockey Club Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.