Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Shea brushing Zion’s teeth with bottled water in her bathroom
2016-2017
Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, United States, 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.
A gelatin silver print depicting bottled water being poured into the mouth of a little girl, Zion Cobb. Cobb is shown from the shoulders up in a quarter-turn away from the viewer. She is wearing a dark colored shirt. She has her head tipped back and her mouth wide open as a larger hand from the upper left margin hold a plastic water bottle and pours some of its contents into the little girl’s mouth. There are no marks or inscriptions, front or back.
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Catalog reference: 2021.60.2
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