Ordinary Safety Pin

Willi Baumeister, Wie Wohnen? (How should we live), Poster, 1927 ((How should we live), Poster, 1927 )

Willi Baumeister. Wie wohnen? Die Wohnung (How should we live? The Dwelling) poster, 1927. Deutscher Werkbund at the Weissenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart. Lithograph. The Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Philip Johnson, 364.1950. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY. © Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Ordinary Safety Pin (ca. 1935)

From the exhibition:

Confluences: An American Expedition to Northern Burma, 1935

Fish-skin coat
Nivkhi, Siberia, Russia
Skin (salmon), pigment, sinew (reindeer), hair (reindeer)
50 3/4 x 42 1/2 x 2 3/8 in. (129 x 108 x 6 cm)

Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1898 (70/83)

From the exhibition:

An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915–1928