Pendant for Heritage Club membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pendant for Heritage Club membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority: Date: after 1982. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908.
The object in the museum catalogue
An Alpha Kappa Alpha metal pendant with a small metal loop attached to the top. The circular pendant has an embossed torch at center surrounded by lettering. The lettering reads “A. K. A. / HERITAGE CLUB.”
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: after 1982
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908
- Type: pendants (jewelry)
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: 3/4 x 9/16 x 1/16 in. (1.9 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Sororities
- Topic: Women
- Topic: Women's organizations
- Object number: 2013.133.2.11
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Historical Society of Washington, DC and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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