Street Dancers — Delhi 



The dancing women, who go about Indian streets carelessly veiled, and who come to the 

 portico of the hotels to dance for a few coppers, are often more picturesque and attractive 

 than the jeweled dancers at palace entertainments. These two Delhi dancers wore only coarse 

 yellow and red cotton clothes, their jewels were necklaces and bracelets of silver rupees and 

 ornaments of cheap imitation of rubies, pearls, and emeralds, but as color studies they were 

 admirable. They did a skirt dauce, ages old in India, without the aid of colored lights or 

 glass floor 



