<I>The Twins</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2010; printed 2021
name: label: Photograph by
content: Jamel Shabazz, American, born 1960
notes: label: Description
content: This is a color archival pigment print from a digital file. The photograph depicts twins posing on the street from the waist up during the Hispanic Heritage Day parade in New York City. The sisters are standing with their inner arms around each other, and their outer arms on their own waists. They are both wearing the same women’s caporale dress for caporales, a traditional Andean folk dance that comes from the Yungas region of Bolivia.
label: Description
content: The dresses are largely black with silver and green accent embellishments on the cuffs, shoulders, and necklines. The shoulders are puffed out. The twins have their hair styled in two side braids tied at the end with black and silver pom poms, their bangs swooped to the left, and they are wearing a round black top hat with a silver-colored rim. The sister on the left is wearing dangly earrings and the sister the right is wearing silver earrings and a necklace.The background is a large wood panel tagged in black spray paint and with a metal chain and lock; on the right is a partial view of a metal roll-up store front door.
label: Description
content: There are no inscriptions on the print, front or back.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Cultural Place
content: Bolivia, Andes, Latin America, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Costume
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Holidays and festivals
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Urban life
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: 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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.63.11
objectType: label: Type
content: pigment prints
label: Type
content: portraits
label: Type
content: digital prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Jamel Shabazz
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: pigment-based ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)