Snake-handling Lula

Photograph

Exhibit Envoy

Name/Title

Snake-handling Lula

Entry/Object ID

PFM.11

Description

Section 2 - Just Kids

Collection

Warner Graves Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Susie Keef Smith

Date made

1930

Dimensions

Height

16 in

Width

12-3/4 in

Depth

3/4 in

Dimension Notes

Framed

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Snake-handling was one of the ways Susie and Lula initiated themselves into the sorority of desert rats. Lula shows her daring with a kingsnake and a bullsnake, 1930. Susie Keef Smith photograph. Warner Graves Collection.