3/4
[ stop the slideshow ]

The hieroglyphics describe the dance

The hieroglyphics describe the dance.jpg A Dancing-GirlThumbnailsDamsels singing to the Sound of TimbrelsA Dancing-GirlThumbnailsDamsels singing to the Sound of TimbrelsA Dancing-GirlThumbnailsDamsels singing to the Sound of TimbrelsA Dancing-GirlThumbnailsDamsels singing to the Sound of TimbrelsA Dancing-GirlThumbnailsDamsels singing to the Sound of TimbrelsA Dancing-GirlThumbnailsDamsels singing to the Sound of TimbrelsA Dancing-GirlThumbnailsDamsels singing to the Sound of Timbrels

A favourite figure dance was universally adopted throughout the country, in which two partners, who were usually men, advanced toward each other, or stood face to face upon one leg, and having performed a series of movements, retired again in opposite directions, continuing to hold by one hand and concluding by turning each other round.