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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 an unidentified model wearing two silver bracelets created by jeweler Art Smith. Taken outside near the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts during the 1974 annual summer session, the model is either laying on or leaning against a rock surface with both arms raised above her head, her proper right arm stretched out and her proper left arms slightly bent inwards at the elbow. On her proper right wrist, she wears Smith’s Modern Cuff. The bracelet consists of a single sheet of metal, cut in the center and bending away in opposite direction for form an open back cuff bracelet. Threaded through holes in the top edge are six cylindrical pieces that wrap around and interlock to the pieces of metal. On her proper left wrist, a bracelet made of multiple wires that wrap around the wrist, connecting at three points with small metal balls.

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