Ticket for a Stevie Wonder performance in Japan: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A ticket for a 1981 performance by Stevie Wonder in Japan. The front of the ticket is predominantly blue in color with a small horizontal strip of white beneath the larger blue block; within the blue block is a line of large black text which reads [STEVIE WONDER]. The other text is written in Japanese characters with cardinal numbers. To the left of the ticket's main body is a perforated edge with the ticket stub is still attached. The stub is white with black text. The back of the ticket has additional information in black text on white paper. A partial stamp is visible on the left side.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1981
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Stevie Wonder, American, born 1950
• Type: tickets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 2 × 5 1/2 in. (5.1 × 14 cm)
• Place depicted: Japan, Asia
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Funk (Music)
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Motown (Music)
• Topic: Rhythm and blues (Music)
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Topic: Soul (Music)
• Object number: 2016.68.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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