Watch the dancers and study their facial expressions. One moment, the team are statuesque, next moment they crouch, then weave, as their blood warms to the hoarse, vibrant chant of their leader, extolling the prowess of their ancestors. All at once, the dancers leap to life. Their feet stamp the ground. The powdered soil spirals around their anklets and clings to the tufts of cow hair about their calves.
Muscular bodies jerk to the throbbing beat of the drum.
Headgear flutters wildly in the warm light. Runnels of sweat pour down the naked flanks of one, who breaks the ranks to point a stabbing finger skywards. Another clings to the skin, around his loins, then in a frenzy, he again and again claws the air with his moving fingers. Denfield, also felt that 'Native' photography offered much to the pictorial photographer. As African people often carried large objects on their heads he felt it was relatively easy to 'incorporate their arms in graceful poses'.