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Necklace - Woman With Gun

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Title

Necklace - Woman With Gun

Subject

Vietnam

Description

During the late-1960s, friends of Roz Payne travelled to North Vietnam, where they met women who made necklaces out of recovered metal from U.S. munitions and downed aircraft. The image on the necklace is a young woman holding a gun.

Creator

Unknown

Source

Roz Payne

Publisher

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date

ca. late-1960s or early-1970s

Format

Necklace

Type

Physical Object

Collection

Tags

Citation

Unknown, “Necklace - Woman With Gun,” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed April 14, 2025, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/270.

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