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PROUD OF HER "HOOD OF SHAME" |
YOUNG MEN AND MAIDENS PAIRED FOR THE BRIDAL DANCE |
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| Hood and cloak in one, made invariably of black cloth gathered on to a frame held in the right hand. Tradition says that the Maltese women adopted the faldetta to hide their faces from their French conquerors | Action dances inevitably tend to disappear as civilization develops, being preserved, if preserved at all, only in dramatic ballet. Thus peculiar interest attaches to this bridal dance still practised by the peasantry dwelling in the Nogat valley territory of Danzig. It is danced by men and women arrayed in bridal costume and carrying puppet brides and bridegrooms set between candles |