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Water Carrier

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Date

ca. 1960

Description

The Water Carrier represents his mother, Anna Riccardi DiSpirito, who he did not see again after he immigrated. Later in life, DiSpirito recalled his youth in Italy and the image of his mother and other village women bringing water from the village well: “. . . the peasant women who would go to the well to get water with their jugs on their heads, showing off their equilibrium with their movements . . .”

Type

Artifact

Region

Central New York, New York State

Era

Postwar United States

Topic

Immigration, Women

Repository

New York State Museum

Identifier

H-2019.20.8

Source

New York State Museum

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