War dance - African village"" – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: War dance - African village"", preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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War dance - African village""
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A war dance performed inside an "African village" display sets this print apart from the many views of exhibition life from the period. Around 1901, world's fairs and midway attractions in the United States and Europe often built re-created villages where people from colonized regions were displayed living, working, and dancing for paying crowds, a practice now widely criticized for its distortions. The caption card behind this record is old and unverified, so the exact location and the identities of those pictured remain uncertain, though the copyright credit to C.D. Arnold records who registered the image. Today the picture is most useful as evidence of how such shows framed African peoples for their audiences.
| Created / published | c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by C.D. Arnold. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,195 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-123301 |
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