Hand-cut silhouette of Flora, a woman enslaved in Connecticut
A framed, hand-cut silhouette of Flora (ca. 1777 - 1815), an enslaved woman in Connecticut. The silhouette was traced at life-size directly from her cast shadow and cut from cream-colored wove paper that has been adhered to thin brown paperboard, likely millboard. It depicts F...
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ld1-1643967006074-1643967020544-0
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object
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normalized
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1
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2021.48.1
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Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and National Portrait Gallery, Museum purchase through the American Women’s History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative
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CC0
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wove paper on millboard
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