Coat
Brand
House of Aama
Fall 2017
Synthetic
Museum purchase
Object number2024.8.1
Rebecca Henry and Akua Shabaka, the mother-and-daughter founders of House of Aama, designed this coat’s silhouette in reference to the post-Civil War period when Black American Southerners, including their Louisiana family, were nurturing their communities and traditions as free people. Harvey recalls her grandmother giving her bloodroot herb as preventative medicine, only later discovering its role as “a powerful guardian for the family” within conjure women practices. Shabaka notes, we “come from this long line of rootworker witch women who were doing all of this in the South.”
DescriptionCoat; orange, green, purple and metallic thread floral long sleeve zip front coat, ruffles at sleeve seams, slash pockets, princess seamsCollections
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