Fire Water

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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.

A painting consisting of two layers of paper with a cutout in shape of a bathing suit at the center. At the center of the painting the bathing suit is a one piece with a sweetheart neckline and a red, blue, green, and yellow design. The design has a face at the center of the bathing suit with a blue circle that has a red center and a yellow lined design inside of it where the mouth should be. The eyes of the face at the top of the bathing suit are blue ovals with a green lined design at the center of them. The nose of the face has a blue lined design on each side and a green center. The neckline of the bathing suit has red, green, and blue rectangles across it. Above the eyes are red triangles with vertical lines down them. Below the eyes are red and yellow squares.

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