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[An African woman carrying an infant, an African man carrying bones, and an African woman carrying a scepter dancing] [graphic].
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Title
[An African woman carrying an infant, an African man carrying bones, and an African woman carrying a scepter dancing] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1890
Date
[ca. 1890]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 5 x 7 cm (2 x 2.5 in.)
Description
Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African woman carrying an infant, an African man carrying bones, and an African woman carrying a scepter dancing. Shows the bare-breasted African woman, in the left, attired in a red headband, gold hoop earrings, a gold necklace, gold bracelets and armlets, a pink, blue, and white striped skirt, and pink shoes, smiling as she looks at the viewer. She carries a green and red umbrella in her right hand. Her left hand reaches to the smiling infant, wrapped in a gold cloth, on her back. In the center is the barefooted African man, attired in gold hoop earrings, gold bracelets and armlets, a gold necklace, a red feather in his hair, yellow and orange striped shorts, and gold anklets, carrying bones in each hand. His left leg is lifted up in a dance step as he waves his arms over his head. He opens his eyes and mouth wide as he looks at the viewer. In the right, the bare-breasted, barefooted African woman has her hair tied back with orange ribbons and is attired in gold hoop earrings, a white lace collar, gold armlets, white and blue bracelets, and a yellow, pink, and white striped skirt. She twists her body in a dance step as she smiles and looks up toward the gold scepter that she carries in her hands.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date deduced from the visual content.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject
Africans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Bones (Anatomy)
Dance.
Infants.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Scraps (Decorations) -- 1880-1890.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 32 [P.2017.95.284]
Accession number
P.2017.95.284
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Gwen Goldman African Americana Trade Card Collection
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