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Family Gathering Water
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Two girls, a boy, a woman, and an infant. Two children have pots on their heads which Carrie describes as a means to gather water in a number of journals. A third is carrying a pouch on her head. The woman is carrying the infant. The girls are wearing shawls, skirts, and earrings, the boy is wearing a skirt and head wrap, and the woman is wearing a dress. They are all barefoot.
1910
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