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Series Title: The Daufuskie Island Project

Shrimper and Son

1978, printed 2019

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

(American, b. 1951)
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Culture
America
Medium
inkjet print
Credit Line
Gift of Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe in honor of Agnes Gund 2023.26.4
Copyright
© Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
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Location
Not on view
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The isolated Daufuskie Island off the coast of South Carolina was one of the places that the Gullah Geechee culture survived into the twentieth century.

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Between 1977 and 1982, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe photographed the people, homes, and activities of the small, close-knit African American community on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina. They were direct descendants of enslaved Africans brought there centuries ago to work on plantations. Their Gullah Geechee culture, which originated in the 1600s, intermingled African languages and religious practices with the rural English of the era and the Christian beliefs of the plantation owners.
A horizontally oriented black-and-white photograph depicts two men with dark skin tones on a boat, pictured from the waist up. Both wear bucket hats and striped shirts. The man on our left faces left, eyes directed downward. The man on our right faces right in profile, a cigarette in his mouth. Choppy water surrounds them, meeting a distant, flat coastline under a light sky along the horizon line.

Shrimper and Son

1978, printed 2019

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

(American, b. 1951)
America

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