Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1914–2000, British, active in South Africa and the USA
Title:
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)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Constance Stuart Larrabee | Y33 Kalahari Bushman People 1947 | Ostrich eggs used as | water bottles.
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
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Constance Stuart Larrabee, Constance Stuart Larrabee: time exposure, New Haven, CT, p. 43, cat. 54, TR647 L36 1995 (LC) (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:67184