Pin for honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pin for honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority: Date: after 1913. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908.
The object in the museum catalogue
An Alpha Kappa Alpha metal lapel pin with a stickpin back. The pin is made up of three green ivy leaves that form a triangle. In each leaf is a gold letter, together spelling "A. K. A." The leaves are on a gold circle border decorated with pearls.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: after 1913
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908
- Type: pins (jewelry)
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: 5/8 x 5/8 x 3/16 in. (1.6 x 1.6 x 0.5 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Sororities
- Topic: Women
- Topic: Women's organizations
- Object number: 2013.133.2.5
- 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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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.
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