Harlem Dancer

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 toned gelatin silver print which features a woman in the center foreground of a studio portrait. She wears an elaborate feathered headdress, cape, and gilded corset. The corset has a low hanging fringe of metallic loops which extend past the proper waist and lay against the upper thighs. The woman also wears what appear to be voluminous harem pants. Her PR hand is placed on her PR hip while her PL hand is held aloft just behind her PL hip. The background behind her is a backdrop of a formal interior; a chair draped with a quilt features prominently in the bottom right corner of the foreground.

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