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Untitled

August 1974; scanned 2023

Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine, 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.

Digital image scanned from a 35mm black and white negative of artist Twins Seven Seven modeling a necklace by Joyce J. Scott outside the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts during the 1974 annual summer session. Twins Seven Seven, who was graphics instructor that summer, is captured from waist up, standing in front of a wall and looking directly into the camera. The necklace by Scott hangs over his bare chest. The necklace has two arm-shaped pieces at the top, connected by a star-shaped pendant. Additional beads hands from the star-shape, including a small hand-shaped piece and a large, circular medallion before terminating in an abstract human figure pendant.

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Catalog reference: 2025.59.122

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