Pinback button for Tuff Gong: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pinback button for Tuff Gong. The button background looks like a record with red and yellow stripes and a black circle at the center. Red and yellow block text at center reads [Tuff / Gong]. Black text on the left side read [Smile Jamaica / Bob Marley and the Wailers]. Black text on the right side read [Prod. by Bob Marley]. The back of the button has a metal pin with a clasp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: after 1970
• Issued by: Tuff Gong, Jamaican, founded 1970
• Subject of: Bob Marley, Jamaican, 1945 - 1981
• Subject of: Bob Marley and the Wailers, Jamaican, 1963 - 1981
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 1 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 5/16 in. (4.4 × 4.4 × 0.8 cm)
• Place depicted: Jamaica, Caribbean, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Reggae (Music)
• Object number: 2013.68.98
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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