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Hook Eagle Morris

Dancers from the Hook Eagle Morrismen from Hook in Hampshire, performing at the 2017 Wickham Festival. They are a Border morris team, dancing dances fromt he English border with Wales. The meaning of the blackface used by these dancers is obscure with theories suggesting that it may be derived from some association with Moors from north Africa (Moorish leading to Morris), or alternatively as a way to disguise the dancers

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Uploaded on August 8, 2017
Taken on August 5, 2017