Picture No | 10219048 |
Date | 1852 |
Description | The Coorg Harvest Festival, Madras, 1852. |
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The Coorg Harvest Festival held in Madras, India, 1852. This festival was an annual event held just prior to the farmers gathering the harvest. This image showing a traditional dance with each of the male dancers holding two sticks. Following the dances were games and bouts of single combat with swords.
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Source | Illustrated London News. 1852. top of page 213. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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