p9324

ARTIST: Sir Edmund Grimani Hornby (U.K., 1825-1896) (sketch); A. Forestier (drawing)

TITLE OF WORK: Quaint performance at a savage entertainment. Sketches in the island of Formosa

TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut

DATE: 1890

DIMENSIONS: 16.7 x 23.6 cm

COMMENTS: Region of Takow, on the south-west shore of Formosa. Sketched in Bankimsing, a Papuhuan village at the foot of the mountains, where a Spanish missionary had lived over thirty years.One elderly chief,

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Taiwan, China, Formosa

DANCE FORM: traditional

KEYWORDS: disguise, animal, dragon