Ordinary Safety Pin

Currency in a Double-Spiral Form (18th Century)
Mafa (Matakam) Artist
Nigeria or Cameroon
Iron
9.5 x 8 x .125 inc

Private collection. Photograph: Vincent Girier Dufournier.

This object is on view in SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts of Africa in the BGC Gallery from September 29–December 31, 2023.

Ordinary Safety Pin (ca. 1935)

From the exhibition:

Confluences: An American Expedition to Northern Burma, 1935

Lewis-style daguerreotype camera (quarter plate) with C.C.Harrison lens #2685 (ca. 1855)

George Eastman Museum, Museum Accession, 1974.0037.2330.

From the exhibition: New York Crystal Palace 1853