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YOUNG KLING FEMALE IMPERSONATOR
| He belongs to the ancient Dravidian race, perhaps the most primitive of all the Indian types distributed over Southern Hindustan and found in thousands in the East Indian seaports and the Straits Settlements. This lad earns his living by donning girl's costume and dancing in the streets of Singapore to the music of his older comrades' guitar and portable harmonium |
THOUGH MIXED, A HIGHLY DECOROUS MEASURE
| This dance of Padaungs is an exception to the rule almost invariably observed throughout Burma that men and women should dance separately. But though both sexes are dancing together here their performance is anything but corybantic, consisting merely of solemn motions backwards and forwards, the time being given by a few monotonous notes hardly amounting to an air sounded on a mouth-organ. Joining hands is eschewed as most improper |