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Material Information
- Title:
- Maypole Dancing (1934)
- Creator:
- Ottley
- Publication Date:
- 1934
Notes
- Abstract:
- May Pole dance, celebrating May Day, spoke to a deep tradition. In the background, stands the first colonial hospital building, from which evolved the area's name Hospital Grounds. The water cachment still in existance on Hollberg Hill, one of many that populated St. Thomas, served as water storage facilities against the drought season. The dancing children, with one hand on the hip and the other raised, moves to an animating song that leads to the circular dance patterns. The white shoes and socks, evolved into part of the uniform of present day majorettes. The grey-suited musicians sit between the two maypole groups, but groups of teachers oversee the activity, of this annual event.
[Additional information in: New Encyclopedia Britannica (1991)Vol. 7 & 16 ; AIA Newsletter, Vol.1, no. 1 (2002 May) :http://www.atkinsinternational.com/May02.pdf]
- General Note:
- Item was digitized and contributed to the collaborative Digital Library of the Caribbean by the University of the Virgin Islands.
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