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Pollera

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    Object Details

    Photograph by

    Jamel Shabazz, American, born 1960

    Subject of

    Unidentified Child or Children

    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.

    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

    Date

    2010; printed 2021

    Object number

    2021.63.3

    Restrictions & Rights

    © Jamel Shabazz
    Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.

    Type

    pigment prints
    portraits
    digital prints

    Medium

    pigment-based ink on paper

    Dimensions

    H x W: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)

    Place depicted

    Harlem, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America

    Cultural Place

    Panama, Latin America, North and Central America

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    National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

    Classification

    Photographs and Still Images

    Data Source

    National Museum of African American History and Culture

    Topic

    African American
    Clothing and dress
    Communities
    Costume
    Folklife
    Holidays and festivals
    Identity
    Photography
    Urban life
    Youth

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd53f163025-23f5-4d5f-b920-c5386bef3e48

    Record ID

    nmaahc_2021.63.3

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