FILIPINO DANCE
Devi Dja
Title: Dancers: Filipino Dancer (Devi Dja)
Print Date: ? (ed. 100)
Artist: Max Pollak
Medium: Drypoint and color aquatint
Image courtesy of the Annex Galleries
Note: The dealer dates this print to c. 1937-1955. The
dancer is
dancing the Pangalay, an indigenous folk dance that predates the
arrival of Abrahamic religions in the Philippines.