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MORGENSTERN

Heavy, iron, spherical head with nineteen cusps, attached to a chain on a tapering ferrule, fixed by the straps on the rest of cylindrical, wooden, original shaft. Small, metallic, lateral plate with stamp “MARZOLI”. Extremely rare.

Germany, 16th Century

length totale circa 140 cm

Dress

c. 1875

silk

STORMÉ DELARVERIE

Storme DeLaverie, singer/entertainer/activist

During the 1950s and ‘60s he toured the black theater circuit as the only drag king of the Jewel Box Revue, America’s first racially integrated female impersonation show.

He was in the Stonewall Inn the night of June 27, 1969, and fought back against police helping to spark the Stonewall riots.

In the 1980s and ‘90s Stormé worked as a bouncer for several lesbian bars in New York City.

The Yeats Sisters & Irish Design: Making, Identities & Legacies, Ambasáid na hÉireann / Embassy of Ireland, WTC 2, Jakarta, February 10 - March 7, 2025 [ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta]