IDNO

P.52899.RDG

Description

Arab dancers in costume entertaining large crowd of spectators in the Djema el Fna square in Marrakech. The dancers wear fur tunics and trousers, sashes with cowrie shells?, and full head mask adorned with either bull or antelope horns and feathers. A seated musician in foreground plays a large tambour (shallow hand held drum with metal discs into slots in drum frame).

Place

N Africa; Morocco; Marrakech

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Felix Photo, Marrakech

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa 1910 - 1930

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Postcard

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.52889.RDG to P.52908.RDG came from envelope now numbered C235/3/ which was found inside envelope C235/. The latter
came from wooden drawer I.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 16/10/2006]