Roots

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This color screen print depicts the profile of a woman’s face in front of a larger profile of an African sculpture. The profiles are on the right side of the print looking left. The largest figure is done in a light golden brown with only a linear outline of the profile, with red details at the brow, eye, and the back of the head, including streaks of red from the eye and base of the skull. The smaller profile is set into the larger one and is a detailed illustration of a young woman’s face formed by a black silhouette with linear marks where the lighter brown of the larger profile shows through from underneath. The left side of the print has two geometric patterns in red, white, and blue. At top, small blue and white diamonds form quilt-like blocks. At bottom is a red and white diamond pattern.

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