Title

Winster Morris Dancers, Derbyshire, c1908. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Winster Morris Dancers, Derbyshire, c1908. Photograph taken during one of British musicologist Cecil Sharp's (1859-1924) expeditions to collect English folk music and dances. The Morris is a traditional English folk dance in which participants wear white trousers and shirts, decorated hats, and bells, rosettes, or ribbons.
English Folk Dance and Song Society collection

Date

1908

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B88_465

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,1Mb (1,4Mb) / 12,1in x 17,4in / 3615 x 5232 (300dpi)

Keywords

England people male man men music arts dance country musician guy costume dancing British English traditional dress location century musical instrument procession Britain concept typical derbyshire B&W MONOCHROME accordion accordionist black & white black and white B W folk music morris dancer 1900s 20th century EFD SS melodeon melodion morris dancing TGN Winster Morris Dancers photograph Unknown Cecil Sharp Sharp Cecil James Winster Morris Men Cecil Sharp photograph