Digital film still of Kasumba, Bassett, and Wright on the set of Black Panther

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A digital film still of the actresses Florence Kasumba, Angela Bassett, and Letitia Wright during the filming of the movie Black Panther. Florence Kasumba, as the character Ayo, is on the left side of the image, wearing a Dora Milaje costume. The costume is red and gold with intricately beaded tabard in red, brown, and gold. Leather bands surround the chest, waist, and hips. She wears silver armor plates on her shoulders and a necklace and arm bands of stacked silver rings in the style of the Ndebele tribe's idzila. She holds an upright spear in her proper right hand. Angela Bassett, as the character Ramonda, is in the center of the image. She is wearing a white crown in the style of a traditional Zulu basket hat, a white dress with metallic threading, and an intricate white filigree mantle.

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