Marabou_Roundhouse

roundhouse

“Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California,” Jules Tavernier, 1878. Metropolitan Museum of Art (2016.135).

In a gilded frame, there is a painted scene of an indigenous ceremony in a roundhouse. Light pours through the center opening of the structure and highlights the dancers at the center of the scene, all around people dressed in bright colors stand and sit while watching the dancers.

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