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| Title | Haiti - the Voodoo Isle |
| Creator | Dunham, Katherine |
| Description | Article by Dunham about Haiti, describing the topography, caste/race extremes, history, and current society and culture, focusing on the contrast between European, upper-class influences and peasant and slave traditions including voodoo |
| Collection | SCRC Text (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) |
| Subcollection | Katherine Dunham Papers |
| Original Publication Source | Sunday Times |
| Place Written | Chicago, IL |
| Date(s) | 1938-07-10 |
| Page(s) | 6-M - 7-M |
| Subjects -titles | Martinique ; L'Ag'ya |
| Subjects -people | Dunham, Katherine ; Page, Ruth |
| Other topics | Haiti |
| Collection ID/Box# | FP20_7_F1DUNHAM_B102_F04_07 |
| Rights Statement | For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this image, please contact the Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Phone: + 1 (618) 453-2516. Email: http://reftrack.lib.siu.edu/reft100.aspx?key=SCRCEmail&cllcid=SCRR |
| Transcript | the
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socially.
d on dow
ion, Haiti
les. The
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HAITI-
Katherine Dunham, who wrote this penetrating article on mysterious Haiti, is a brilliant and cultured Negro. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago under a Julius Rosen¬ wald Fellowship, and is taking a Master's degree under a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship- Miss Dunham's specialty is primitive dancing and she has given many dance recitals in Chicago. She has assisted Ruth Page in staging hallets at the Civic Opera and staged a number, "Martinique, " in the recent WPA ballet, "L'Ag'ya."
the Voodoo Isle |
| Original Format | article |
| Original dimensions (cm.) | 41 x 30 and 40 x 30 (2 pages, 2nd in 2 pieces) |
| Digital Object Type | Image |
| Digital File Format | .tif |
| Digital File Publisher | Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. |
| Language | English |
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