THE HINDOO EGG DANCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 132, 22 September 1876, Page 2

THE HINDOO EGG DANCE.

The dancer, dressed in a corsage and a very short shirt, carries a willow-wheel of moderate diameter, fastened horizontally on the top of her head. Around this wheel threads "are fastened equally distant from each other, and at the end of each of these threads is a slip-noose, which is kept open by a glass bead. Thus equipped, the young girl comes toward the spectators with a basket full of eggs, which she passes round for inspection to prove they are real, and not imitations. The music strikes up a jerky, monotonous strain, and the dancer begins to whirl around with great rigidity. Then, seizing an egg, she "puts it'in one of the slip nooses, and, with a quick'motion, throws it from her in anch a way as • to draw the knot tight. Tie 'swift turning of the" dancer produce' 3 centrifugal force, which stretche r . itliread out straight, like a ray from the,, circumference of t le circleOne after another the eggs Are thrown out in' th'isfee slip - nooser until they 'make a horizontal " aureole or haw about -the danoer's hear-- Then -tW dance becomes "still more rapid, so raw in fact,. th&tr.it- ; is difiSoult .to distinguisj the features. the girl; the moment, critical, stej), the least irfr gularity iii time''"the eggs dash agaio->" each other. But-li'ojv. can the dance p e stopped 1 There; to remove the "eggs"in.; the way : in whi cll -ftiey have been put in' r place. This tion is by far the more'delica,te of the tvfC It is necessary that'the dancer, by. a singl -.motion, exact and should tab hold bf the egg, and remove it.from,.th ? noose. 'A.single false' motion of .the'h&io the least interference of one of the thread

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