The historical pageant, La Fiesta de la Rancho San Jose, at the Los Angeles County Fair celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first Spanish settlers, Don Ygnacio Palomares and Don Arcardo Vejar to the Pomona Valley.
Banjara women dancing and singing. Six women dance (a welcome song for marriage?) with raised arms, bedecked with white bangles. They wear large nose rings, toe rings, and elaborate necklaces. Their long cholīs (blouse) gāgrās (ankle-length full skirts) and oṛhnīs (shawl worn over head, one end tucked into waist) are decorated with needlework, coins, and mirror work. The headman, Gajā, plays a daf for their song. Other men had left for work in fields. Huts and a thatch-roof cowshed are visible in the background. The village is 17 miles from Hyderabad.
Banjara women dancing and singing accompanied by a daf or ḍapla (?). Two women bedecked with white bangles with arms and bodies lowered, as Gajā, plays a daf or ḍapla (?) with thin bamboo sticks. Dwellings are visible in the background. The village is 17 miles from Hyderabad.
Barbara Lee Tramutto dancing, in flowered dress, sash, necklace of flowers or leaves, and palm-frond hat, barefoot, one foot raised, hand behind head, indoors with wall in background, 2 leis hanging, and flower necklace or wreath on floor. The photograph was taken at the home of Adelbert Bartlett, located at 535 15th St., Santa Monica.
About 6 women in skirts and peasant blouses, center stage, dancing, with about 12 other cast members, in formal dress, seated and standing at stage edges, with about 3 orchestra members visible below straight edge of stage, in a Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "La Traviata."
Barbara Lee Tramutto dancing in long grass-style skirt, bandeau, with headdress, necklace, and wristbands of flowers, barefoot, one leg exposed, one arm raised, indoors with wall in background, with 2 leis on floor, 1 on wall
Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "La Traviata" with about 5 women in skirts and peasant blouses, center stage, dancing, with about 9 other cast members, in formal dress, seated and standing at stage edges, with orchestra members visible below straight edge of stage.
Six women holding tambourines, most in skirts and peasant blouses, some barefoot, some with headdresses or kerchiefs, in dance poses with stage set in background, for a Santa Monica Civic Opera production of "La Traviata."