Pollera

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.

This is a color archival pigment print from a digital file. The photograph depicts a young girl posing on the street from the waist up during the African American Day Parade in Harlem, New York. The young girl is posed with both of her hands closed, clutching the sides of her skirt, and placed on her sides with the elbows out. The young girl is dressed in a Panamanian folkloric outfit, one resembling the pollera montuna style. She is wearing a white shirt with a high, round neckline, ¾ sleeves, and two long, layered ruffles going across. The skirt is green, patterned with yellow and red dots. There is an orange gallardete (ribbon) fashioned near her waist on then proper right side with a V-shape end. Her hair is braided in a traditional, pollera fashion with two front braids and tied at the end with an orange hair tie.

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