Object Details
Description
Ecology is a branch of science dealing with the relationships of organisms within an environment. Urban ecology is the study of how organisms coexist in a hard-landscape urban area. This button showing a dead bird in the city is a satirical example of how ecosystems cannot coexist without a balanced relationship.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Florence Greene
date made
1970s
ID Number
1996.0130.35
catalog number
1996.0130.35
accession number
1996.0130
Object Name
button
Physical Description
metal (overall material)
white (overall color)
black (overall color)
round (overall shape)
Measurements
average spatial: 1 3/4 in; 4.445 cm
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Environment
used
Environmental Movement
Subject
Environmental History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1179116