Object Details
- Local Note
- Original Constance Stuart Larrabee Number: 4-173
- Contact Sheet Number: 320562-16
- Creator
- Larrabee, Constance Stuart
- Collection Photographer
- Larrabee, Constance Stuart
- Place
- Africa
- South Africa
- Lesotho
- Topic
- Animals -- Africa
- Domestic animals
- Sotho (Basuto)
- Creator
- Larrabee, Constance Stuart
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- Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection
- Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection / Series 1: Photographs / Photographs / Sotho Peoples, Basutoland (Lesotho)
- Sponsor
- The cataloging of the Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection was supported by a grant from The Smithsonian Women's Committee.
- Extent
- 1 Negatives (photographic) ((silver gelatin)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
- 1 Photographic print ((contact print)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
- 1 Photographic print ((dupe print)., b&w, 8 x 10 in.)
- Date
- 1941
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-062412
- Type
- Archival materials
- Negatives (photographic)
- Photographic prints
- Collection Citation
- Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection, EEPA 1998-006, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Photographic prints
- Scope and Contents
- Sotho Cattle Herders, 1941. Photographic image of two men. One is sitting on one of the cattle. The other man ison horseback. Their herd of cattle is nearby. There is a field of kaffir corn nearby as well. Photograph by Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1941.
- The following caption is from an article in "Natural History" (September, 1950) in which this photograph was printed: "Summer and winter the Basuto [Sotho] wears his characteristic blanket of gay and varied design and color. Before the days of traderes, skin clothing and (in cold weather) a simple undecorated cloak sufficed. Today the Basuto [Lesotho] buys his blankets at European-run trading stores, which are scattered through the territory. The hat is woven of grass by the Basutos [Lesothos] themselves."
- There are no prints of this negative in the Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection. EEPA produced an 8x10 study print for reference purposes.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1539205658568-1539205663215-3
