Regional Collection (#37)

Boats of Society Islands
Boats of Ulietea, in the Society Islands, observed by Captain Cook in the course of his travels. The double canoe is a kind of sailing catamaran

Dance of Zulus, 1840
The sina dance of the Amazoulous, watched by Delelorgue (lower right)

Racial Types / Italy
An Italian mother is doing the laundry while her baby boy plays with a lemon and a butterfly in the laundry basket

Welsh Step-Dancing
STEP-DANCING Men, Women & children enjoy the performance of a step- dancer during a miners strike in South Wales. N.B harpist

Norfolk Step-Dancing
STEP-DANCING An example of one of the many forms of step-dancing found in England. Two men perform for their mates in a pub tap room

New Zealand Canoe
A canoe of New Zealand carrying eleven men

Italian Peasant Wedding
An peasant bride and groom in traditional wedding dress, Pinerolo, Italy

Spanish Cliff Houses
Houses like nests - cliff dwellings at Cuenca, Spain, which are in danger of falling down

Matabele Tree-Houses
Showing a big tree capable of holding many small domed dwellings which kept their inhabitants (the Bakuens of South Africa) safe from wild animals

Pedlar Selling Cloth
A travelling salesmen shows a young woman a bolt of patterned cloth. He has a yard stick ready to measure her order. A women in the background embroiders

Dance Sweden
Countryfolk dancing in the Floda district of Sweden

Carriage at Tashkent
Scene on the road to Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Butterfly Dance Burma
Dancing the Butterfly Dance at the Burmese court

Laundry Brittany
Washing clothes at Douarnenez, Bretagne

Nat. American Writing
Native American (probably Comanche) inscriptions on stones and other items

Rock Writing USA
Writing and drawings incised on rocks in the Oklahoma desert by Native Americans

Japanese Bridge
The Japanese favour bridges like this at Kamaido, over the Shinji-no-ike : steep, constructed of wood, they are ornamental as well as utilitarian

Japanese Garden
Japanese gardens tend towards great formality, using water, rocks and other natural ingredients to compose patterns which often have a spiritual significance

Jap Laundresses
Japanese women do their laundry on the river-bank, much like their sisters in France and Italy

Boating in Japan
A Japanese boating party, in what appears to be a kind of punt

Japanese Dance
A Japanese lady dances in the intimacy of her home, while another member of the family provides the music on what appears to be a kind of samisen

Dance 1830 France
An alfresco ball during the Romantic epoque

Dance, China
A dancer at the Chinese court performs with her back to the Emperor, on whom she is forbidden to cast her eyes

Dance Revol. France
A ball at the time of the Directoire in revolutionary France

DANCE C16
Dancing at the court of Henri II, who is depicted partnering his consort, Catherine de Medici

Dance C18 France
Dancing to a minuet by Rameau in pre-revolutionary France

Indian Court Dancer
Girls of the harem dance to entertain their maharajah

Dance - Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek ladies dancing on the grass

French Cow 1862
A French cow, 18 months old, owned by Monsieur de Laugaudin, Martel, Loire, first prize in the regional Moulins competition of 1862

Egyptian ood
An Egyptian musician performs on the ood

Egyptian Kanoon
An Egyptian musician performs on the kanoon

Egyptian Kemengeh
An Egyptian musician performs on the kemengeh

NILE BOATS
Boats on the Nile

Egyptian Scribe
Egyptian scribes

An Egyptian Party
Four men take off their shoes before enjoying a convivial meal. Needless to say, the women of the household are not expected to take part

Egyptian Manuscript
Part of an Egyptian Manuscript found in the Swathing of a Mummy

Aborigines Dancing 1850S
Aboriginals performing a Corroboree or native dance

Father C mas / Birch Twig
Father Christmas arrives at the Thalberg familys house bearing gifts for the good children but a birch twig for the naughty children. He receives a mixed reception

Music / Africa / Waganda
A group of African musicians from Waganda

Art / Greece / Vase 2
A mythological scene (details not known)

Art / Greece / Vase 3
A mythological scene (details not known)

Canadian Canoe
Canadian canoe at a riverbank camp

Christmas in India
British residents in India bring in a bar of ice instead of the traditional Yule Log

Christmas in India
A childrens party on board a troopship returning from India to Britain

Franco-Prussian Xmas
THE CHILDRENs TRUCE During the Franco-Prussian War, Germans set up a Christmas tree in occupied France, to the admiration of the village children

Christmas / Sweden
A family occasion - celebrating Christmas Eve at Sundborn

Swedish Sleigh
Six children are driven across the snow in a horse-drawn sleigh

Spanish Gipsy Musicians
Two Spanish gipsy girls play guitar and tambourine

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