Mine Dance Performer
odd: label: Local Note
content: Contact Sheet Number: 332089/A-4
name: label: Creator
content: Larrabee, Constance Stuart
label: Collection Photographer
content: Larrabee, Constance Stuart
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: South Africa
label: Place
content: Johannesburg (South Africa)
creator: label: Creator
content: Larrabee, Constance Stuart
setName: label: See more items in
content: Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection
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content: Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection / Series 1: Photographs / Photographs / Miners, Johannesburg area
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Negatives (photographic) ((silver gelatin)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print ((contact print)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print ((dupe print)., b&w, 8 x 10 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-061859
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Mine Dance Performer, 1938. Close-up photographic image of one of the male perfomer's costume. His face is not in the image. He is wearing arm, waist, and leg bands made of fur and is holding a spear. Behind him are other performers dressed similarly and spectators watching in the background. Photograph by Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1938.
label: Scope and Contents
content: These images were taken in mining compounds in the Johannesburg area, where African miners, migrant workers recruited from all over southern Africa, lived in segregated quarters. As a form of entertainment, miners performed dances and played music on Sundays. These performances attracted white visitors, who received permission from the white owners of the mines to attend. Constance Stuart captured many of the images in this series during such an event.
label: Scope and Contents
content: There are no prints of this negative in the Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection. EEPA produced an 8x10 study print for reference purposes.