maypoledancing

Thank you for posting this to the Dancing Outside group. This is charming.

Thanks -- I love the dancing pictures too!

I love the expressions in this

Found this information about maypoles in Encyclopedia Britannica online edition. Ceremonial folk dance performed around a tall pole garlanded with greenery or flowers and often hung with ribbons that are woven into complex patterns by the dancers. Such dances are survivals of ancient dances around a living tree as part of spring rites to ensure fertility. Typically performed on May Day (May 1), they also occur at midsummer in Scandinavia and at other festivals elsewhere. They are widely distributed through Europe—e.g., “Sellenger's Round” in England, the baile del cordón of Spain—and also are found in India. Similar ribbon dances were performed in pre-Columbian Latin America and were later integrated into ritual dances of Hispanic origin. Maypoles may also appear in other ritual dances, as in the Basque ezpata dantza, or sword dance. "Maypole dance." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Library Edition. Accessed 20 Mar. 2009

this is fabulous. my mother was 11 in 1934 and may well have been in this.

Renira1 That is a marvellous find for you. We don't have any information about who the chldren are. Many of our pictures from that time period only have limited information.