Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Slide from the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
1971
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
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 photographic slide from the set of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It features an image of an unidentified man sitting on a motorcycle. Looking directly at the camera, he wears a dark jacket, denim pants, and a headband as he holds a cigarette between his index and middle fingers. Several houses and vehicles can be seen in the alleyway behind him.
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2012.82.10.105
