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Painting of an older man balancing a large basket of cotton on his head, standing among cotton plants.

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A painted figure of an elderly man stands in a cotton field, balancing a large woven basket heaped with cotton bolls on his head. He wears a dark worn jacket, a white neckcloth, brown trousers and rough shoes, and cotton plants fill the background.

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