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child life jacket

 
 

Life Jacket, 2008-9
Coated & heat-sealed nylon, polyester webbing, thread, buckle, reflective tape, safety whistle, milkweed fluff.
Child size 16×13×3½", artist’s multiple, edition of 6 plus one AP.

The buoyant milkweed fluff inside the life jacket was grown and processed under the direction of Dr. Winthrop B. Phippen, Department of Agriculture, Alternative Crops Program, Western Illinois University (Macomb, IL).