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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
fretless	Learning to play the banjo (63* d)	RE: Learning to play the banjo	30 Dec 07
John, That's an entirely resonable observation regarding the acuracy of the rendering of the banjo in the Rockefeller watercolor. On the other hand, the scene has been interpreted as accurately rendering elements of the clothing, particularly the supposedly African-derived hear coverings, and the facial features of the people depicted seem sufficiently individualized that the overall picture, which is thought to be a folk rendering of a wedding ceremony (i.e. jumping the stick), has been interpreted as a sort of marriage certificate/documentation within in 18th centery African American community that was often illiterate. And I guess I need to apologize for thread drift, unless we consider learing "about" banjos to be part of learning how to play them.

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