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Volume 4 60 |
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TRIPPING A PAS DE DEUX IN SEVILLE |
DISTINCTIVE PERSONAL ADORNMENTS OF ESTHONIA |
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| Dancing is a living art in Spain, and in Seville especially is practised to perfection by the Andalusian whose gestures and undulations can express almost every human emotion | The large breast buckle is the all-important and the most interesting of the various silver trinkets which add such an original touch of beauty to the otherwise simple national dress of the peasant-woman. The custom of wearing this novel and striking ornament, generally finely chased and embossed, dates back innumerable years, and figures in many old pictures of the Esthonian peasantry |