Photographic postcard of Jalal Nuriddin and Suliaman El-Hadi: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Postcard, color photograph of Jalal M. Nuriddin, and Suliaman El-Hadi, both of the Last Poets. Nuriddin pictured on the left, with El-Hadi on the right. Nuriddin is wearing a black and white patterned hat with a predominantly red, white, and blue jacket with a vertical zipper down the entire front. A swooping pattern of red, white, and brown designs goes from shoulder to should, and swoops lower in the middle. Jacket has red and light blue arrow like designs around the neck. El-Hadi is wearing a multi-colored hat similar in style to Nuriddin's, with vertical stripes all different colors around the perimeter of the hat. El-Hadi is also wearing a black and white knit cardigan, with a deep V-neck and gold buttons. Underneath the cardigan he is wearing a blue turtleneck. Both gentlemen are looking at the viewer with their hands behind them. Blank white reverse.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: late 20th century
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Suliaman El-Hadi, American, 1936 - 1995
• Subject of: Jalal M. Nuriddin, American, born 1944
• Subject of: The Last Poets, American, founded 1968
• Type: prints
• Type: portraits
• Type: picture postcards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 3 15/16 × 5 15/16 in. (10 × 15.1 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Spoken word (Poetry)
• Object number: 2014.292
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Jalal M. Nuriddin
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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