Object Details
- Description
- This is a color archival pigment print from a digital file. The photograph depicts a young girl posing on the street from the waist up during the African American Day Parade in Harlem, New York. The young girl is posed with both of her hands closed, clutching the sides of her skirt, and placed on her sides with the elbows out. The young girl is dressed in a Panamanian folkloric outfit, one resembling the pollera montuna style. She is wearing a white shirt with a high, round neckline, ¾ sleeves, and two long, layered ruffles going across. The skirt is green, patterned with yellow and red dots. There is an orange gallardete (ribbon) fashioned near her waist on then proper right side with a V-shape end. Her hair is braided in a traditional, pollera fashion with two front braids and tied at the end with an orange hair tie. One both sides of her head, she is wearing tembleques, pearled flower ornaments, attached with gold-colored combs. She is featuring several types of necklaces and bracelets. She is standing in front of a black gated entrance to a staircase leading to a brownstone.
- There are no inscriptions on the print, front or back.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Jamel Shabazz, American, born 1960
- Subject of
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Date
- 2010; printed 2021
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
- Medium
- pigment-based ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
- Type
- pigment prints
- portraits
- digital prints
