Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz lecturing on Afro-Cuban music, assisted by three Black Cuban drummers playing batá drums, before a White audience in Havana, Cuba, on May 30, 1937
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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library
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Original image has handwritten description on verso.
Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Herskovits, Frances S. (Frances Shapiro), 1897-1972Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
1937 05 30
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Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits photograph collectionRecord Contributed By
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public LibraryRecord Harvested From
The New York Public LibraryKeywords
- Anthropologists
- Blacks
- Cuba
- Drummers (Musicians)
- Havana
- Lectures And Lecturing
- Ortiz, Fernando, 1881 1969