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Museum object · Photographs and Still Images

Dancehall Queens

ca. 2002

Kingston, Jamaica, Caribbean, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

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

A color photograph of two unidentified women dancing. There is a woman facing the proper right side of the image. Her legs are bent, her body is leaning back, and her arms are bent and out to the sides with her fingers spread out. She is wearing a low-cut red halter dress that ends above her knees. She is wearing bracelets on both of her arms. Her hair is blonde and curly and is partially pulled back. She also has sunglasses on top of her head. There is a woman in the background with short blonde hair. She is hunched forward with her knees bent and her hands on her thighs. She is wearing a sleeveless yellow top, yellow shorts, a white scarf, and earrings. Each of the images has a white border around it. The borders are thinner on the tops and bottoms and thicker on the sides. The border for 2015.132.162.

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Catalog reference: 2015.132.162.1-.2

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