Flower-Umbrella Dance (Hanagasa odori) from the series: Comic Dances of the Pleasure Quarter (Seiro niwaka kyōgen)

674-3, 6°Kachina dance sash (in two halves); ta-kun-i-kwi-kya-tsi-napa, or kâkâthléom (TK); cotton, wool, pigments; l. 102 cm. (without fringe), w. 26.5 cm.; ca. 1880.‖ The oldest ...

362-187Hopi woven belt, faja (TK); wool; l. 239 cm., w. 9 cm.; ca. 1880.\Such belts were usually used by women to secure their dress, but on ceremonial occasions men adopted these ...

"The dances of the Balenge people are similar to those I have previously described from the people of Bangveolo, as is clear from the following description from my book From Cape t...

The Niwaka Festival takes place every autumn in the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter in Tokyo. Male and female geishas in fanciful costumes parade in colorful processions along the main ...