Gallery Title
Gallery Title
b/w printphotograph
Accession Number NWHRM : 3902
Description
Photographic print (b/w); Group portrait of men of the Machine Gun Company, 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment in Cairo, 1925. The men are dressed up in arab costumes and have 'blacked-up' their faces.
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Unacceptable today, there was a long tradition of 'blacking-up' for entertainments in music halls and amateur productions.
Department
Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum
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