Dance Gallery

BUSN2A-00105

Sailors "gamming" - talking and entertaining each other on a whaling-ship, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

© North Wind Picture Archives

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Slave family in colonial New York

Slave family making music in their cellar room of the Knickerbocker mansion, New York, 1700s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

© North Wind Picture Archives

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NATI2D-00453

Zuni Pueblo Red-Tailed Hawk Dancer performing the Buffalo Dance at the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonials, New Mexico.
Digital photograph

© N.Carter/North Wind Picture Archives

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