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Women's dance
Object Number 998-14-00/1.3.51
Display Title Women's dance
Descriptions
Object Description Written on album page: "This is one of the rare occasions that the women of Goulfei get to have a good time. They are decked in their most elaborate dresses. The dance is little more than a mincing walk. They swing their gowns as they go."
Department Photographic
Date 1927-1928
Artist Milton Katz
Culture
  • Central and Equatorial African styles
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Belgian Congo
Africa / Cameroon / Tuscany / <County> / <City> / Goulfei
Materials Print, black and white on Album
Dimensions Overall: 8.5725 × 10.795 cm (3 3/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Vivian Katz and Family of Milton Katz
Provenance
Collector Milton Katz (1927-1928)
Intermediary David Warrington
Donor Vivian Katz (5/8/98)

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Women's dance
998-14-00/1.3.50 Women's dance
Belgian Congo
Goulfei
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30498.1 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Band at a women's dance
998-14-00/1.3.49 Band at a women's dance
Belgian Congo
Goulfei
"Nursing": Di!ai sitting in a werft with a cord of beads in her mouth while nursing /Gaishay and Debe (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31273 "Nursing": Di!ai sitting in a werft with a cord of beads in her mouth while nursing /Gaishay and Debe (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Women's dresses of painted moose skin
2004.24.3123 Women's dresses of painted moose skin
Canada
Dance: Men dancing counter-clockwise around a group of women sitting at a daytime dance, distant view
2001.29.1578 Dance: Men dancing counter-clockwise around a group of women sitting at a daytime dance, distant view
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Men dancing clockwise around the circle of women sitting at a daytime dance, with more men entering
2001.29.1611 Dance: Men dancing clockwise around the circle of women sitting at a daytime dance, with more men entering
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: /Gam leads the line of men dancing counter clockwise through a circle of women sitting at a daytime dance (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1586 Dance: /Gam leads the line of men dancing counter clockwise through a circle of women sitting at a daytime dance (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around a group of women sitting at a daytime dance, with "/Gao Music" being held by "Crooked /Qui" and ≠Toma (son of !Naishi) (half of stereo 2001.29.5752)
2001.29.1619 Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around a group of women sitting at a daytime dance, with "/Gao Music" being held by "Crooked /Qui" and ≠Toma (son of !Naishi) (half of stereo 2001.29.5752)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Men dancing counter-clockwise at a daytime dance, beginning to cut through the circle of women sitting, with one woman dancing (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1575 Dance: Men dancing counter-clockwise at a daytime dance, beginning to cut through the circle of women sitting, with one woman dancing (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Men dancing at a daytime dance, with two young men starting to dance way from the group
2001.29.1596 Dance: Men dancing at a daytime dance, with two young men starting to dance way from the group
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Men dancing clockwise around the circle of women sitting at a daytime dance, with some men standing, waiting to enter the dance, view from the expedition truck with a wide-angle lens
2001.29.1610 Dance: Men dancing clockwise around the circle of women sitting at a daytime dance, with some men standing, waiting to enter the dance, view from the expedition truck with a wide-angle lens
Nyae Nyae Conservancy