Title
Copper and brass diamond design cuff by Winifred Mason Chenet, ca. 1945. Creator: Winifred Mason Chenet.
Caption
This bracelet was made around 1945, the same year Winifred Mason Chenet spent five months in Haiti studying the island's art and culture. Chenet had been awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship grant, "to gather folk material and basic art patterns used by West Indians and to express these feelings in jewelry." The design of this bracelet, with the thin strands of copper wrapped around copper pegs in a criss-crossign diamond pattern, may have been inspired by the peg drums Chenet saw in Haiti.
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM21A73_137
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
10,3Mb (306,1Kb) / 7,3in x 5,5in / 2193 x 1641 (300dpi)