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[Primitive dancing.

Description

Aquatint, colored; line border: 18 x 29 cm.

Note

Lower right: G. Gallina f. An outdoor setting with seven large poles arranged in a circle. Twenty scantily clad natives are performing a variety of movements, including embracing, crouching, and dancing alone with wheat, branches, rattles, or spears in their hands.
Probably a plate from a book.

Call Number

*MGZFD Gal G Pri 1

OCLC

NYPY877015264-F

Author

Gallina, Gallo, 1796-1874.

Title

[Primitive dancing.

Imprint

n.p., 1827]

Local Note

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Local Subject

Primitive dancing.

Prints (Graphic arts) -- 19th century.

Research Call Number

*MGZFD Gal G Pri 1