Photograph of Etta Moten Barnett by Scurlock

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This is a black and white portrait of Etta Moten Barnett by the photographer Scurlock. Taken from the shoulders up, she is posed with her back to the camera. She turns and looks over her left shoulder, gazing directly at the viewer. She wears a dress or top with a back consisting of several wide straps radiating down from a beaded collar that dips low across her back. In the bottom left hand corner of the image is black vertical text that reads “SCURLOCK / WASH / DC.” The photograph is set in an off-white matting with a thin black line around the border of the image. Two-thirds of the way along the two sides and along the bottom is a second thin black line, and halfway up the sides and partway along the left and right sides of the bottom margins is a third black line framing the image.

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