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ARTIST: William Theobald Maud (U.K., 1865-1903) (sketch); H. M. Paget (drawing)

TITLE OF WORK: The advance in the Soudan: Life in camp at Merawi: the devil dance

TYPE OF WORK: Print

DATE: 1897

DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 30.1 cm

COMMENTS: Our special artist writes: "The other day I had an opportunity of being present at a most extraordinary spectacle. Two wives of the black soldiery had in the eyes of their lords become possessed of th

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan, Merawi, West Africa

DANCE FORM: traditional

KEYWORDS: exorcism, religion, drum