Photograph of B-Girl Laneski
Object Details
- depicted
- B-Girl Laneski
- Description (Brief)
- Photograph of B-girl Laneski with the breakdance group, Majestic Rockers in New York City, 1985. B-Girl Laneski, (born Lane Davey), was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970. Later moving to Seattle, she enrolled in a breakdancing class in 1983, taught by the Seattle Circuit Breakers. The group was impressed with her dancing skills and subsequently gave her the name LaneSki. A pioneer in the male dominated Hip Hop world, Laneski was one of the first female breakdancers to master and develop many of the dance moves created in the early 1980s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1985
- ID Number
- 2006.0192.03
- accession number
- 2006.0192
- catalog number
- 2006.0192.03
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 10 in; 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm
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- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Cultures & Communities
- Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
- Photography
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Hip-Hop
- Record ID
- nmah_1316937
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-0576-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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