IDNO

LS.125601.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Sierra Leone. 72.S.L.9 - 14.
Hammock Dance. (6 slides)."

Place

W Africa; Sierra Leone; Daru; Port Lokkoh

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Denton, F.W.H (Lieutenant)

Collector / Expedition

Tremearne, Arthur John Newman (Major)

Date

1909

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Similar images published in 53. The Hammock Dance in Sierra Leone Author(s): A. J. N. Tremearne Source: Man, Vol. 12 (1912), p. 105 Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2788027.
Treamearne notes in introduction:
"Though I have often heard of the "hammock dance," as it is called, I have never been fortunate enough to see it, and I am indebted to Lieutenant F. W. H. Denton of " The Queen's," lately attached to the West African regiment, for the following notes and photographs of the performances which he saw at Daru and Port Lokkoh, in Sierra Leone, in 1909." [JD 15/8/2013]

Bibliographical Reference: Published in Current Anthropological Literature, Vol. 1. Published quarterly by the American Anthropological Association and the American Folk-lore Society (Lancaster, 1912), is the following reference:
Tremearne (A. J. N.) The hammock dance in Sierra Leone. (Man, Lond., 1912, XII, 105, I pi.) Brief account, with illustrations from photographs, of the "hammock dance" (performed in a hammock stretched between two posts, 20 to 30 ft. high), as witnessed
in 1909, by Lieut. F. W. H. Denton, at Daru, Port Lakkoh. The performance "usually continues for hours, until, in fact, the performers and the audience are exhausted or overcome
with drink." [Source: http://archive.org/details/currentanthropol01ameruoft, JD 15/8/2013]