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| Keywords: Bechuana Reed Dance.jpg en Bechuana Reed Dance by Moonlight Livingstone describes a dance The people usually show their joy and work off their excitement in dances and songs The dance consists of the men standing nearly naked in a circle with clubs or small battle-axes in their hands and each roaring at the loudest pitch of his voice while they simultaneously lift one leg stamp heavily twice with it then lift the other and give one stamp with that; this is the only movement in common The arms and head are thrown about also in every direction; and all this roaring is kept up with the utmost possible vigour; the continued stamping makes a cloud of dust ascend and they leave a deep ring in the ground where they have stood If the scene were witnessed in a lunatic asylum it would be nothing out of the way and quite appropriate even as a means of letting off the excessive excitement of the brain p 225 1857 http //libweb5 princeton edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/africa/livingstone/livingstone-images html David Livingstone Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years ™ Residence in the Interior of Africa and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast Thence Across the Continent Down the River Zambesi to the Eastern Ocean London John Murray 1857 David Livingstone other versions PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Dance of Africa Tswana people Culture of Botswana Dance in art | ||||
