Regional Collection (#31)

British Country Dance
Hodge shall dance with Prue Keeping time with kisses We ll have a jovial crew Of sweet smirking misses... a Christmas dance in a country home in the old days

Two Dance an Irish Jig
Two Irish dancers - one barefoot - dance a jig to the tune The wearing of the green

Dervish Dancers
Dervish dancers of Constantinople (Istanbul); men and boys rehearse together to the sound of a pipe, while their master supervises them

Racial / China Dancer 1904
Elegant Chinese dancer with a fan in each hand

Chinese Sword Dance performed by a male dancer

Musician and Dancer
A female dancer, a devotee of the god Apollo, sits out a dance at his side

Russian Country Dance
A country dance in Little Russia (southwest Russia, including Ukraine)

A Natal Kraal
A kraal in Natal : the white building is a missionary church. The card blames the missionaries for the ruination of the country

Black Children Dance
Three black children - two girls and a boy - dance in traditional style

Vaud Children Dance
Seven boys and girls from the Vaud canton dance in a ring

Old Persian Writing
Cuneiform writing from the ancient city of Persepolis

Chinese War Junk
Chinese war junk

Karrozin Carriages / Malta
At Valletta two karrozin carriages wait by the Upper Barracca Gardens beside the City Gate

Sheep Shearing / 1908
Sheep being sheared in a large barn in Scotland

Folk Moot in Britain
A folk moot in progress. Folk moots were important regional gatherings where issues were debated and laws made

Chinese Cart
A Chinese covered cart with an innovative tarpaulin fron to give shade to the horse from the sun

French Cabriolet
A French Cabiolet carriage containing some well-to-do folk pauses beneath a suspended street lantern to take a drink from a roadside salesman with a one-man bar

HORN DANCE
ABBOTS BROMLEY HORN DANCE: The troupe make their way to one of the large houses or farms in the district. The dance lasts all day and dates back over 1000 years

Music / Argentina / Guitar
A Gaucho guitar-player of the Argentinian pampas

Xmas Market C18 Prussia
Weinachtsmarkt (Christmas market) in Berlin

Inca Marriage / Picart
An Inca wedding ceremony, subtitled How the Incas marries those of his own blood

Mounted Troops in Iraq
British cavalry and their allies in action in the deserts of Iraq. Mounted troops are best suited to cope with the difficult desert terrain and Iraqi climate

Textile Workers
A squabble among staff in a French workshop - girls snatch the bonnet off the head of an over- dressed colleague, and trim her dress, while others get on with their work

Indian Weaver
An Indian weaver at work in the shade of a tree

Indian Weaver - 2
An Indian weaver mending broken threads

St Nicolas in Holland
Saint Nicolas rides into a Dutch village, an annual custom heralding the coming of Christmas

Austrian Wedding Feast
An Austrian wedding feast - the bride crosses the table, symbolising the rite of passage from spinsterhood to the married state

Dance / Tarantella / Reznick
A solo dancer performs the tarantella

Peeling Potatoes
German housewife peeling potatoes

View from Window
View from the Artists Window Romantic depiction of a young blonde ballerina looking at the snowy scene ouside

Coracles / Curragh Boats
The main picture shows Irish coracles, known as curragh boats, being used in the sea just off-shore. The inset shows a man carrying a smaller welsh-style coracle

Berlin Opera 1920S
At the Opera Decadent scene of wining, dining and socialising in full evening dress at the Berlin Opera House

Kabyle Homes, Algeria
Homes of Kabyle tribespeople, Algeria

Catalan Musicians
Popular musicians of Catalonia with horn, drum, and four types of stringed instrument

Spanish Contradanza
A Spanish couple dance a paso de contradanza to the accompaniment of a fiddle

THE HONER
DER DENGLER (" THE HONER/SHARPENER" ) Idealised German woodworker in traditional clothes

Brunhildes Departure
BRUNHILD(E)s DEPARTURE FROM ISENSTEIN : Painting celebrating Brunhild(e), the German mythical woman renowned for her superhuman physique

Dance / French Aristocrats
French aristocrats dancing, during the reign of Louis XIII

Ghillie Callum, The Sword dance

Delphi-Palast Hotel
DELPHI-PALAST HOTEL Hedonistic times - wining, dining, smoking, drinking and dancing in glamorous surroundings

American Bar, Berlin
ROBERTS BAR Trendy people prop up the bar in glamorous evening dress at " Roberts", the American bar in Berlin

Nightclub Singer 1939
Die Diseuse (" The Singer" ) A redheaded German nightclub singer in a slinky green dress accompanied by the orchestra

Racial /s Africa / Bari-Neg
War dance of the Bari-Neger of Mozambique, south-east Africa: the musicians work the warriors up into a frenzy of blood lust

Berlin Restaurant 1930
ARTISTS CORNER Artists enjoy wining and dining with music in the relaxed atmosphere of a Berlin restaurant

Lapp Marriage 1555
A Lapp marriage is solemnised with fire

Nautch Girl / India
A Nautch (dancing) girl performing. Her footwork is accompanied by drums & cymbals which beat out complicated rhythmic cycles

Tarantella / Italy
A couple dance the Tarantella accompanied by a lute and tambourines underneath a shady roof of vines

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