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TITLE OF WORK: The Italians in Africa. Arab women dancing in honour of their husbands killed in the war
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1896
DIMENSIONS: 6.5 x 11.2 cm
COMMENTS: Arab women at Monkullo engaged in a kind of religious dance in honour of their husbands killed in battle. This seems to be the Arab widow's manner of swearing fidelity to her dead spouse and also of e
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Abyssinia, Erythrea, Adigrat
DANCE FORM: traditional
KEYWORDS: religion
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