Honor and Dignity

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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.

This is a color archival pigment print from a digital file. The photograph depicts a man and a woman standing side by side during the Hispanic Heritage Day Parade in New York City. The man is standing on the left with his proper left arm around the woman and his proper right arm holding a gold-colored staff with the Cusco (or Tahuantinsuyo) flag. He is wearing a white, long sleeved shirt with a large, gold-colored emblem of the sun in the center. On his head, he is wearing a gold-colored crown with blue and purple feathers, with a symbol of the sun and [PERU]. The woman is standing to the right and is using both hands to hold a Peruvian flag, covering her and the man’s bottom half. She is wearing a gold-colored long sleeve shirt with brown and blue symbols around the neckline.

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