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Title
Metate Day, Pomona College
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1914
Publication Information
Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Claremont Colleges Photo Archive
Rights Information
For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the Honnold/Mudd Library Special Collections at https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
Description
A group of Pomona College students of the class of 1915 perform a dance outside on Metate Day. They are all wearing Turkish or North African costume and some of the men have darkened their faces. At the front a group of dancers are kneeling in a circle with one arm raised. In the background, a row of similarly costumed men sit on horseback next to a parked car.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
xp02220.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ccp/id/8670
Subject
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
College students
Student activities
Costume
Dance
Blackface entertainers
Horses
Automobiles
Source
Lantern slide, 4 x 3.25 inches: title on slide, "'15. Metate Day."; Pomona College Lantern Slides, Honnold/Mudd Library, Special Collections
Relation
Claremont Colleges Photo Archive - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/ccp

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