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

The object in the museum catalogue

A digital film still of Florence Kasumba, as the character Ayo, Danai Gurira as the character Okoye, and Michael B. Jordan, as the character Erik Killmonger, on the set of the film Black Panther.

The three are pictured in profile outside on a concrete platform, filming a scene in front of a crane-suspended camera. Kasumba and Gurira are on the left side of the image, facing towards Jordan. Kasumba is standing slightly behind Gurira. Both wear Dora Milaje costumes of red with brown leather bands, shoulder armor, and a necklace and arm bands of stacked rings in the style of the Ndebele tribe's idzila. Kasumba's rings are silver and Gurira's gold. Both carry long spears. Jordan is on the right side of the image, holding a short spear in his proper left hand and a machete in his proper right hand, with both out towards Kasumba and Gurira. He wears a long black jacket, dark grey pants, and black boots. A kimoyo bead bracelet is on his proper left wrist. Behind the actors, on the left side of the image is a crane-suspended film camera, with a camera operator reaching up to hold it on both sides. In the center, a boom operator holds a fur covered microphone on a long boom pole. In the background, tents, crew members and other actors are visible under a blue sky with a tree line in the distance.

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: Florence Kasumba, Ugandan, born 1976
• Subject of: Danai Jekesai Gurira, American, born 1978
• Subject of: Michael B. Jordan, American, born 1987
• 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: 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: 2018.39.3.12
• 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.