Digital film still of Danai Gurira and Ryan Coogler on the set of Black Panther: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A digital film still of Danai Gurira and Ryan Coogler on the set of the film Black Panther.

The two are depicted from the waist up, standing next to each other on an interior set. Gurira is on the left side of the image. Dressed as the character Okoye, she wears a red and gold Dora Milaje costume with brown leather banding across the chest and waist. An intricately beaded orange, brown, orange and gold tabard is at her waist, with a large gold belt buckle of a panther face. She wears gold armor plates on her shoulders and a necklace and arm bands of stacked gold rings in the style of the Ndebele tribe's idzila. A kimoyo bead bracelet is on her proper left wrist. She is standing next to director Ryan Coogler, who is wearing a black t-shirt. Coogler stands with his arms bent in front of him, left palm facing up and the first two fingers of his right hand extended adn pointing towards the left palm. Both Gurira and Coogler are looking down at Coogler's hands and Gurira is mimicking the pose of his hands with her own. Film equipment can be seen on the right side of the image. The background is out of focus. There is a blue wall and several crew members can be seen.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2017
• Photograph by: Matt Kennedy
• Produced by: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., American, founded 1939
• Directed by: Ryan Kyle Coogler, American, born 1986
• Distributed by: The Walt Disney Company, American, founded 1923
• Subject of: Danai Jekesai Gurira, American, born 1978
• Subject of: Ryan Kyle Coogler, American, born 1986
• Subject of: Ruth E. Carter, American, born 1960
• Type: film stills
• Type: digital images
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: H x W: 4000 pixels × 6000 pixels
• Dimensions: File size: 69.73 MB
• Place captured: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Comics and graphic novels
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2018.39.3.4
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Marvel Studios and The Walt Disney Company, © Marvel/ Matt Kennedy
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Marvel/ Matt Kennedy Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.