Shea brushing Zion’s teeth with bottled water in her bathroom

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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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