IDNO

P.99669.ACH2

Description

Full-length frontal studio portrait of a ‘Domestic Servant Creole of Demerara’. The woman wears a head wrap, neckerchief, floral patterned European style dress, and a patterned basket. She holds a rectangular lidded basket over the wrist. The studio backdrop is painted with vegetation.

Place

S America; Guyana; Georgetown; Demerara

Cultural Affliation

Creole

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

?Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

1880 - 1910

Collection Name

?Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Album Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.99643 to P.99673 are in A.173. The album was formerly kept in paper archive envelope WO6/1/12; Box 174. It has now been transferred to the photo archive.

Source: A stamp inside the album mentions it to be a Haddon gift.

This album has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [S. Guha 17/11/2004]