Description
Photograph, 'Portrait of woman in white bonnet and shawl at the Stuttgart Folk Festival', black and white, negative, by Hedda Hammer (Morrison), Stuttgart, Germany, 1931. Portrait of woman who is seated on the ground, turning her head slightly to look at the camera. She wears a white decorative bonnet tied under her chin with ribbon. Her hair is in a long plait that extends over her shoulder and she has a shawl wrapped around her shoulders

Significance statement
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.

Production notes
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.

Credit line
Gift of Mr Alastair Morrison, 1992

Design marks
'Kodak-nitrate' is marked on the border.

Registration number
92/1416-8