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

The object in the museum catalogue

A digital film still of Danai Gurira, as the character Okoye, on the set of the film Black Panther.

Gurira stands on top of a silver Lexus, holding a spear, against a blue wall in an interior film set. She is wearing a sleeveless red dress with a woven bodice in a floral design, arm bands made of stacked gold rings, a kimoyo bead bracelet on her proper left wrist, and gold slipper style shoes. She holds the long spear in her proper right hand, with the tip pointed down. She is standing on the roof of the silver Lexus. She is looking slightly up at a film camera suspended from a crane. The car, a 2018 Lexus GS F, has red seats and is set on four blue pedestals, with hydraulic equipment underneath the chassis. To the left of the image, next to the car, is a yellow ladder with a crewmember on either side. The blue wall behind them has a white screen on which is projected a night time city traffic scene.

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: Ruth E. Carter, American, born 1960
• Type: film stills
• Type: digital images
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: H x W: 6000 pixels × 4000 pixels
• Dimensions: File size: 68.7 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: 2018.39.3.19
• 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.