Quilter Hettie Barnes with her granddaughter on her front porch in Doloroso, near the Homochitto River in Wilkinson County, Mississippi

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This black and white photographic print depicts a little girl braiding the hair of an elderly woman. The woman is seated on a wooden chair on the porch of clapboard house. She wears a light colored dress and apron and glasses. She gazes at a folded newspaper she holds in her lap. Standing on her left side is a little girl in a light colored sleeveless top and shorts. She is braiding a section of the woman's hair. A large circular woven basket and a rocking chair are in the background. There is a Roland L. Freeman stamp on the back.

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