The Twins

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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 twins posing on the street from the waist up during the Hispanic Heritage Day parade in New York City. The sisters are standing with their inner arms around each other, and their outer arms on their own waists. They are both wearing the same women’s caporale dress for caporales, a traditional Andean folk dance that comes from the Yungas region of Bolivia. The dresses are largely black with silver and green accent embellishments on the cuffs, shoulders, and necklines. The shoulders are puffed out. The twins have their hair styled in two side braids tied at the end with black and silver pom poms, their bangs swooped to the left, and they are wearing a round black top hat with a silver-colored rim.

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