Baptism in Zulu Jordan

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.

Baptism in Zulu Jordan, 1946. Original caption found in Bengt Sundkler's book "Bantu Prophet in South Africa." The rest of the caption below the photograph reads as follows: "The bundle of palm leaves stresses the River Jrodan connotations." Two men are in a river. One man has his hands on the other man who is kneeling below him in the water. Nearby is a bundle of palm leaves. Photograph by Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1948. Constance Stuart documented church services, processions, and baptisms in several African churches. A 1938 series of photographs shows a baptism near Pretoria. In 1946, she spent time with several congregations in the Johannesburg area. Some of these photographs were published in Bengt Sundlker's book "Bantu Prophets in South Africa" (first published by Lutterworth Press, London 1948). There are no prints of this negative in the Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection. EEPA produced an 8x10 study print for reference purposes.

Collection

Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection

Archival grouping

Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection / Series 1: Photographs / Photographs / Church services, Johannesburg, South Africa

Catalog date

1946

Recorded places

Africa; South Africa; Johannesburg (South Africa)

Cataloged creator or photographer

Larrabee, Constance Stuart

Format and extent

1 Negatives (photographic) ((silver gelatin)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.); 1 Photographic print ((contact print)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)

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