Ukwu Festival Dancer

Description

Card-mounted copy of a photograph taken ca. 1976 of a female dancer at the Ukwu Festival, Nigerian East Central State, Idemmli Division. The dancer wears bells on her ankles, and heavy anklets which restrain movement and thus restrict dancing to slow, majestic steps.

Metadata

Identifier mw72r71l
IRN 413017
Class Mark LAVC/PHO/P2068
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/mw72r71l
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Photographic Prints
Creator(s) Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu
Date 1978
Size and Medium 1 photographic print.

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