Photograph of Etta Moten Barnett gazing at a painting

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This is a black and white photograph of Etta Moten Barnett gazing at a painting. Photographed from below, she has a monumental aspect. She is shown from the hips up, wearing a long sleeved white blouse with a brooch at the neckline and a grey straight skirt. On her head she wears an intricately wound headwrap with a detailed contracting dark/light pattern. Standing in a quarter-turn to the viewer she holds her left arm up in the arm and has her left hand resting at the back of the headwrap. Her gaze is to her right, at a painting on the wall of the bust of a woman wearing a similarly wound headwrap. The painting shows the woman from the neck up wearing the headwrap and a light-colored round-necked shirt against a plain background. The painting is framed. Next to the painting on the wall is a large map of Africa.

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