Diorama of a slave dance The wooden cabinet has a ramped bottom and on the inside a curved rear and upper side. The back wall is covered with painted paper with a forest and blue sky with white clouds. The inside of the sides feature blue with white clouds. The plastic representation consists of a small hut left in the background and a large central cabin with dancing figures. The show presents a performance of one of du. This (dance) communities held several times a year a festival Where: at performances were given often had a socially critical load. In the city were different du, which vied

Diorama of a slave dance The wooden cabinet has a ramped bottom and on the inside a curved rear and upper side. The back wall is covered with painted paper with a forest and blue sky with white clouds. The inside of the sides feature blue with white clouds. The plastic representation consists of a small hut left in the background and a large central cabin with dancing figures. The show presents a performance of one of du. This (dance) communities held several times a year a festival Where: at performances were given often had a socially critical load. In the city were different du, which vied with each other to give the best performance. Schouten has represented a party on a plantation. The dance tent is built of four pillars on each side connected by five horizontal bars. The cabin sides are open. In the back is a kind of railing that separates the room from the outside with the slaves inherit. The sloping roof of pina sheet rests on beams that are formed from the joists. The cabin is thus a large open space. Left four male musicians. The first is a man who plays the flute, the Loango tou-tou. He wears a light colored and striped robe. To his right a man who plays a bass drum as the man behind him. The fourth musician sits on a stool and played with two sticks a kwakwabangi. Central to the show dancing three women and one man. The woman closest to the musicians is probably the afrankeer, the narrator explaining the idea to the public. She was the central figure of the du (= company and the piece). Fulfilling the role of afrankeer was honorable and loved. The afrankeer is dressed in a long pleated skirt, which she still has a cloth (pangi) draped. She wears a headscarf. She wears bracelets, necklaces and earrings. In her hands she holds a cloth. Right from the afrankeer dancing two women in a similar manner are dressed, all areas of the decorative motifs of the canvases. Right of women dancing a man, also with a cloth in his hands. On the far right you can see a gro

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