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

The object in the museum catalogue

A digital film still of Daniel Kaluuya, as the character W'Kabi, and Danai Gurira, as the character Okoye, on the set of the film Black Panther.

The two actors are standing next to each other on the right side of the image, with a film camera and camera operator facing them on the left side. Kaluuya is in the center. He has dotted scarification markings across his face from nose to temples. He wears an asymetrical chestplate of braided leather and mettalic gold over a greyish brown shirt wtih braided brown collar. A brown and black leather tunic wraps around his waist, with the gold handle of a sword visible on the proper left side. He also wears a textured, fingerless grey glove on his proper right hand with a sleeve that goes past his elbow. A basotho style blanket of blue with white linear markings on one side and a black and white houndstooth print on the other is just visible over his proper left shoulder.

Gurira is standing to Kaluuya's proper left side, with her proper left profile visible to the viewer, wearing a Dora Milaje costume. The costume consists of an orange and red fabric with dark brown leather bands around her shoulders, torso and hips. 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.

Both Kaluuya and Gurira look towards the film camera, which is held on proper right shoulder of the camera operator. Film equipment and the set is visible in the background.

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: Daniel Kaluuya, English, born 1989
• 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: 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: 2018.39.3.7
• 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.