Photograph of Terri Lyne Carrington playing on drum set: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black-and-white gelatin silver photograph of Terri Lyne Carrington playing at a drum set.

An adolescent Terri Lyne Carrington, with her long dark hair braided, wears a short sleeve striped shirt and bright loose trousers, as she plays at a bright drum set. The photo was captured with particular focus on Carrington who plays against a very dark backdrop. On the white reverse of the photograph is an inscription in green felt tip pen: [Terri Carrington, / Ebony 4-77 not used].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1977
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Terri Lyne Carrington, American, born 1965
• Type: black-and-white prints
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (image): 9 1/2 × 7 7/16 in. (24.2 × 18.9 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 10 1/8 × 8 1/16 in. (25.7 × 20.4 cm)
• Place captured: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Child musicians
• Topic: Children
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Musicians
• Object number: 2021.101.8
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Terri Lyne Carrington
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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