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Title: Bacup Britannia Coconut Dancers - PNH00165
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Title
Bacup Britannia Coconut Dancers - PNH00165
Description
The Britannia Coco-nut Dancers of Bacup. The nut dance is most unusual and is performed either in a straight line or two lines of four with each of the dancers wearing wooden discs or nuts on their hands, and knees with a belly nut around the waist. During the Nut dance and the figures the wooden nuts which are made from maple are struck together in time with the music. The name “Coconuts” were given to the discs when the dance came to Lancashire and is said they resembled the protection to the elbows and knees when crawling along the narrow seams down the mines.
Creator
Unknown
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
1995, 1990s
Rights
PHDA - Pennine Heritage Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
PNH00165.tif
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Bacup Britannia Coconut Dancers - PNH00165,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/23623.
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