Murray Island: Australian Aboriginals Dancing "Shake-A-Leg" on Beach (ca. 6 September 1898)


Four visiting Australian Aborigines wearing labalabas clap, then dance, then clap again. A fifth man beats rhythm by hitting a long pole with a branch. Film in three sections with cuts separating them. Same locale as sequence two. Length 70 seconds.


We are grateful to the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, for permission to reproduce images from the footage. All these images are © Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and may not be reproduced.

The photographs themselves are frame stills taken from a 16mm copy of the film at the UK's National Film and Television Archive.


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