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I Sang The Blues Black: 9 Holes

2019

Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America

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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 framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and indigo dye. Most of the portrait is dyed in indigo with only the left vertical edge left white. The edges of the portrait are rough.

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2021.42.3

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