Ethiopia Award (Africana Heritage Award)
Item
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Artist
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
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Title
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Ethiopia Award (Africana Heritage Award)
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Date
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2001 reproduction from original 1921
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Medium
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plasterwork
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Dimensions
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15 × 4 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.
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Description
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"Specially commissioned award statuettes based on Meta Warrick Fuller’s early twentieth-century sculpture The Awakening of Ethiopia were presented to: Katherine Dunham, dancer, choreographer and anthropologist by Harry Belafonte; Dorothy Height, organizer and civil and women’s rights activist by Johnnetta B. Cole; Amadou–Mahtar M’Bow, Senegalese educator, administrator and international public servant by Rex Nettleford; Abdias do Nascimento, Brazilian scholar, artist, author and politician by David N. Dinkins; Gordon Parks, photographer, film director, author and composer by Spike Lee; and Billy Taylor, pianist, composer, educator and jazz activist by Howard Dodson. "
"Africana Heritage Awards Presented to Diaspora Legends," African Heritage, 1, no. 3 (2001): 1.
https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/Africana_Hert_V1_3.pdf
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Credit
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. "Ethiopia Award" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 11, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7b08c7f0-d57b-013b-817c-0242ac110002
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Location
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Art and Artifacts Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
