<I>Pollera</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2010; printed 2021
name: label: Photograph by
content: Jamel Shabazz, American, born 1960
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Child or Children
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: There are no inscriptions on the print, front or back.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Harlem, New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Cultural Place
content: Panama, Latin America, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Costume
label: Topic
content: Folklife
label: Topic
content: Holidays and festivals
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Urban life
label: Topic
content: Youth
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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: 2021.63.3
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)