Baptism in Zulu Jordan
odd: label: Local Note
content: Original Constance Stuart Larrabee Number: 15-46
label: Local Note
content: Contact Sheet Number(s): none
name: label: Creator
content: Larrabee, Constance Stuart
label: Collection Photographer
content: Larrabee, Constance Stuart
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: South Africa
label: Place
content: Johannesburg (South Africa)
creator: label: Creator
content: Larrabee, Constance Stuart
setName: label: See more items in
content: Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection
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content: Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection / Series 1: Photographs / Photographs / Church services, Johannesburg, South Africa
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Negatives (photographic) ((silver gelatin)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print ((contact print)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print ((dupe print)., b&w, 8 x 10 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-061579
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 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).
label: Scope and Contents
content: There are no prints of this negative in the Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection. EEPA produced an 8x10 study print for reference purposes.