Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Hot crab pot
1979; printed 2007
Daufuskie Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, Sea Islands, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
This gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of two men handling a hot crab pot. Both men are wearing short-sleeve shirts with collars, dark pants and baseball caps. Each man is leaning forward with his hands gripping one of the pot's handles. There are no inscriptions, front or back.
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Catalog reference: 2014.310.37
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