398: Scenes from Greek Mumming Plays

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/2/2/72
Level Item
Scope and Content Card base with five black and white photographs and one ink illustration attached, labelled with pasted letter a-f. The number 398 is pasted in the lower left corner. "Mumming Plays A.J.B. Wace" is written in ink in the lower left corner. Beside each image is a later annotation in pencil giving a bibliographic reference, except beside image a where it is written "Can't find." Framed. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Scenes from Greek mumming plays, recorded in different places by A.J.B. Wace. a. Masquerade in the snow at Hagios Georgios, near Viza, Thrace. b. A mummer in Scyros. c-f. Mummers on May Day on Mount Pelion, Thessaly. Man, the Old Woman, and the Doctor. d. The Death of the Old Man. e. The Arrival of the Doctor. f. The Doctor at work, restoring the Old Man to life."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Studies of Modern Greek Life"