This and other negatives of people in regional dress at the Stuttgart Folk Festival are among the few known photographs taken by Hedda Hammer (Morrison) during her youth in Germany. The images were perhaps captured as an assignment undertaken while she was a student at the Bavarian State Institute for Photography in Munich. Hedda has carefully recorded the detail of regional costume and accessories, the shape and texture of hats and the beauty of elaborate headdresses as if discovering and exploring the 'exotic' within her own culture.

This is one of about 50 photographs known to have been taken by Hedda Hammer (Morrison) at the Stuttgart Folk Festival. This image was taken on Eastman Kodak nitrate film.

Photograph, 'Portrait of woman in large bead and bauble headdress and bead choker at the Stuttgart Folk Festival No. 2', black and white, negative, by Hedda Hammer (Morrison), Stuttgart, Germany, 1931.

Portrait of woman in Regional dress at the Stuttgart Folk Festival. She is wearing a large crown-like bead and bauble headdress, and a multi-strand beaded choker around her neck. Her bodice features a decorative, embroidered square collar, with a ribbon border. This image is similar to 92/1416-14.

Photographed: Morrison, Hedda; ; 1933 - 1946

'EASTMAN-KODAK-NITRATE - 83' is marked on the border.

92/1416-19

1933 - 1946

115 mm

87 mm