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ARTIST: Gilbert Holiday (U.K., 1879-1937) (drawing)

TITLE OF WORK: A "Devil dance" in London, the principal feature in the Royal Naval and Military Tournament

TYPE OF WORK: Print

DATE: 1908

DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 32.7 cm

COMMENTS: One hundred natives, all enlisted from the savages of the interior, were brought over from sierra Leone. The illustration shows the moment when a victim of the chief's displeasure, who has just been s

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sierra Leone, U.K.

DANCE FORM: traditional

KEYWORDS: weapon, sword, rifle