Pendant for the centennial celebration of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pendant for the centennial celebration of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority: Date: 2004. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908.
The object in the museum catalogue
An Alpha Kappa Alpha metal pendant. The circular pendant is gold in color. At the center of the pendant is the Alpha Kappa Alpha seal in green and white. On either side of the seal there are three green ivy leaves. Gold lettering above and below the seal reads “Celebrating / 2004 / 100th / ANNIVERSARY.”
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2004
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908
- Type: pendants (jewelry)
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: 1 3/16 x 1 x 1/8 in. (3 x 2.5 x 0.3 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Sororities
- Topic: Women
- Topic: Women's organizations
- Object number: 2013.133.2.14
- 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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