Photograph of Carl Harvey playing Rastacasta electric guitar on stage: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Carl Harvey playing Rastacasta electric guitar on stage: Date: 2012-2017. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Carl Harvey, Jamaican Canadian, born 1958.
The object in the museum catalogue
This is a color photograph of Carl Harvey playing his prototype custom ESP Rastacasta electric guitar onstage. Shown from the waist up, he wears a black tee-shirt with small white text and an image that are both partailly obscured by his guitar strap that is worn diagonally across his chest. His black guitar shoulder strap has a pattern of red, yellow and green marijuana leaves. He is wearing a bandana on his head and sunglasses, and a gold pendant around his neck. He is playing a red, yellow and green striped guitar. Standing inthe foreground is a second indivual playing a black accoustic guitar. Standing in profile to the viewer, he wears a black sleeveless shirt and black leather pants. On his head is a black bandana and sunglasses. Rigging for stage lights can be seen in the background. The back is blank.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2012-2017
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Carl Harvey, Jamaican Canadian, born 1958
- Subject of: Toots Hibbert, Jamaican, 1942 - 2020
- Type: cases (containers)
- Type: electric guitars
- Medium: ink on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 4 × 6 in. (10.2 × 15.2 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: African diaspora
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Reggae (Music)
- Topic: Rock and roll (Music)
- Object number: 2021.102.6.5
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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