Murray Island: Islanders Dancing in Dari Headdress (ca. 6 September 1898)

FIRST SHOT: Three men in labalabas perform a processional dance on a beach. Camera jam occurs mid-shot and the dance re-commences. Length 70 seconds. SECOND SHOT: Unidentified dance, same camera position as before, but with camera panned slightly to the right. Three men dancing in procession on a beach. Length 21 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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