Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Royal Dancer of the Kingdom of Burundi
[19--]
Africa; Burundi
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Postcard image of a man wearing traditional attire. Text on verso reads: "One of the members of the Royal Dancers of the Kingdom of Burundi (Watutsi) entertainers at the Africa Pavilion. Lion mane headdress and leopard skin are traditional with these formerly fierce, towering hunters." and "(20) Prepared exclusively for AFRICA pavilion, New York World's Fair.".
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 6: Burundi (BD)
- Catalog date
- [19--]
- Recorded places
- Africa; Burundi
- Recorded subjects
- Weapons; Tutsi (African people)
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (col., 14 x 9 cm.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: sova.eepa.1985-014_ref731
Collection: African Postcard Collection