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Slide from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

1971

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A photographic slide from the set of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It features an image of an unidentified man sitting on a motorcycle. Facing the camera, he wears a fringe jacket and cowboy hat as he holds a cigarette between his index and middle fingers. Two individuals on his left and right are also partially visible in the shot.

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Catalog reference: 2012.82.10.43

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