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Dance Theatre of Harlem #3

1983

Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, 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 digital image of a photograph by Anthony Barboza of two male dancers from the Dance Theatre of Harlem performing in 1983. Both of the dancers are dressed in the same costume of gold pants, blue and gold tunics, gold turbans, and swords in hilts at their proper left waists. The dancer in the right foreground has on a shawl or vest and stands with his right hand raised in a fist. The dancer in the left background wears a long coat and holds both his hands above his head while looking upward.

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Catalog reference: 2016.96.5

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