Object Details
- Description
- A black-and-white gelatin silver print photograph depicting a man performing salat, the ritual prayer of Muslims. The man is shown kneeling on a prayer rug inside a large, otherwise empty room. He faces the right side of the image with his eyes closed and hands raised in supplication. He wears a light-colored skullcap and long tunic, his sandals on the floor behind his bare feet. A dark doorway and a few steps are set into the wall behind him. The photograph is set in matte white backing, with a printed white gallery label on the reverse.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Chester Higgins, American, born 1946
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Date
- 1990; printed ca. 2000
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 6 1/8 × 8 9/16 in. (15.5 × 21.7 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 6 15/16 × 10 in. (17.7 × 25.4 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
