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Creator:
Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1914–2000
Title:
San Child Drinking from Ostrich Egg full of Drinking Water, Kalahari Desert
Former Title(s):
Bushman Girl Using Ostrich Egg as Water Bottle, Kalahari Desert, 1947
Date:
1947, printed 1989
Materials & Techniques:
Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm), Image: 15 1/2 × 15 inches (39.4 × 38.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Constance Stuart Larrabee | Y33 Kalahari Bushman People 1947 | Ostrich eggs used as | water bottles.

Artist's label

Signed and dated in graphite, on verso: "Constance Stuart Larrabee .........1947"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
© National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Accession Number:
B1996.6.54
Classification:
Photographs
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
portrait
Access:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:67184
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Constance Stuart Larrabee, Constance Stuart Larrabee: time exposure, New Haven, CT, p. 43, cat. 54, TR647 L36 1995 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]


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