Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Preparing Crab
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 preparing crabs. The men are pouring crabs from one bucket into another over a fire. The man on the left is wearing light colored pants, a stripped dress shirt and a baseball cap. The other man is wearing a short-sleeve dress shirt, pants and a baseball cap. The men are surrounded by wood fragments and debris. There are no inscriptions, front or back.
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Catalog reference: 2014.310.35
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