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Torres Strait Islanders: Shake-a-leg dance on the beach (1898)

1898

Torres Strait Islanders: Shake-a-leg dance on the beach (1898)

1898

  • NFSA IDGWR4XYFQ
  • TypeFilm
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormActuality
  • Duration4 mins, 31 secs
  • GenresSilent film, Indigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
  • Year1898
  • WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons

A small group of young Aboriginal men demonstrate a shake-a-leg dance on the beach at Murray Island. They perform this dance in the same location where Haddon recorded the Torres Strait Islander men’s dance.

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AC Haddon
  • WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons

A small group of young Aboriginal men demonstrate a shake-a-leg dance on the beach at Murray Island. They perform this dance in the same location where Haddon recorded the Torres Strait Islander men’s dance.

Courtesy of
AC Haddon
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    AC Haddon

  • by Liz McNiven

    It was believed Haddon filmed only Torres Strait Islander men, but at the end of the reel Haddon recorded a dance performance by a small group of young Aboriginal men who travelled over to Murray Island from the mainland in a bêche-de-mer (sea cucumber) fishing boat.

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