Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1914–2000, British, active in South Africa and the USA, San Child Drinking from Ostrich Egg full of Drinking Water, Kalahari Desert, 1947, printed 1989
- 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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- 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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