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Tragic masks.

Circular dance of Greek women wearing costumes from different locations 1: Greek woman from Izmir (Smyrna). 2: Woman from Patmos. 3: Woman from Chios. 4, 6: Women from Bulgaria. 5: Woman from Tinos or nearby island. 7: Young woman from Izmir (Smyrna).

Palikars dancing in the open air.

Scene from the performance of Aeschylus' Suppliants, in the ancient theatre of Delphi during the Delphic festival of 1930.

View of the theatre of Deplhi the day of the performance of Aeschylus' Suppliants in the Delphic festival of 1930.

Snapshot from the celebration of the centenary of Greek independence in Patras.

Score of musical play: “L'Echo de Navarin”.

Ioannina from the island on the lake, copper engraving from an edition by C.R. Cockerell.

Turkish woman on her way to the public baths.

Itinerant musicians in Naples.

Dervish.

Turkish woman playing the qanun.

Turkish woman playing the tambour.

Turkish dancer.

Turkish male dancer.

Greek man from the Aegean island playing the tambus.

Dervishes in the Pera teke, finishing their dance.

The pipe used by the shepherds in Asia Minor is a similar instrument to those found in the tombs in Athens.

Shepherd playing the flute in the Troad.

Ney flute and tambur.

Old itinerant musicians in Algiers.

Young dancer from Algiers.

Greek dance, Paros.

View of Izmir.

View of Eceabat (anc. Madytos) in Gelibolu Peninsula.

The Hippodrome of Constantinople.

View of Joannina, from the island of the lake.

Ottoman (Turkish) musicians.

Turkish musicians.

Greek dance (Tripoudi or Terpoudia).