A ritual dance in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, features costumes and masks borrowed, mostly, from the Museum there.

A ritual dance in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, features costumes and masks borrowed, mostly, from the Museum there.

Photograph

Nickolas Muray

Maker
American, b. Hungary, 1892–1965

A ritual dance in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, features costumes and masks borrowed, mostly, from the Museum there.

The dancers, we learned, needed lubrication, which was supplied in adequate supplies of native beer. Thereupon the performance became superlative.


From The Great Tribes of Africa


1957
Gelatin silver print
Image: 34 x 26.5 cm
Mount: 35.5 x 28 cm
Gift of Mrs. Nickolas Muray
Inscriptions verso (typed label): A ritual dance in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, features costumes and masks borrowed, mostly, from the Museum there. The dancers, we learned, needed lubrication, which was supplied in adequate supplies of native beer. Thereupon the performance became superlative.

verso (stamp): Photo by Muray / Mrs. Nickolas Muray / 2401 River Road / Pt. Pleasant New Jersey

verso, label (stamp): Photo by Muray / Mrs. Nickolas Muray / 333 E. 49th St. - 6B / New York 17, N.Y.
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