Word: tambura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...represented by Miss Ruth's arms, slithered over her head and body, she wore an impudent expression that told her audience that neither she nor the fakir took the cobras very seriously. In The Yogi, she strode on to the stage in flowing saffron robes with a long tambura (Indian lute) held at her back and her white hair wildly flying. She had first danced it in Vienna in 1908; in this appearance, she was frankly an old woman, but a triumphant old woman...
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