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The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. [1] After it was used on the cover of Edward Said's book Orientalism in 1978, the work "attained a level of notoriety matched by few Orientalist paintings," [2] as it became a lightning-rod for criticism of Orientalism in general and Orientalist painting in particular, although Said ...
Snake charmer in Jaipur (India) in 2007 Snake charming is the practice of appearing to hypnotize a snake (often a cobra ) by playing and waving around an instrument called a pungi . A typical performance may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerous acts, as well as other street performance staples, like juggling ...
Roddy MacBill: a koala and is Blinky Bill's uncle he plays the bagpipes. Bob: a friend of Jacko who was killed by hunters years ago. Uncle Jack: a frill-necked lizard and Jacko's uncle. Echo: a gecko barrowing Robert's glasses. Bluey: a blue footed booby. Bell: TBA; Doris Cranklepot: Cranky's mother. Whoogle: an owl.
Snake charmer song, also known as "The Streets of Cairo", or "The Poor Little Country Maid" "Snake charmer" (song) by Teddy Powell (composer) and Leonard Whitcup (lyricist), published 1937; Snakecharmer, by Sort Sol; Snake Charmer, an EP by Jah Wobble, The Edge and Holger Czukay
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Northern Africa, Western Asia, around the Persian Gulf and northern parts of South Asia.
Nala Damajanti was the stage name of a late 19th-century snake charmer who toured with P.T. Barnum's circus and performed at the famed Folies Bergère in Paris. French sources identify her as Emilie Poupon (1861–1944), born in Nantey, Jura Department, France.
The Snake Charmer (French: La Charmeuse de Serpents) is a 1907 oil-on-canvas painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a depiction of a woman with glowing eyes playing a flute in the moonlight by the edge of a dark jungle with a snake extending toward her from a nearby tree.
Other prominent instruments in use during the early centuries AD were the snake charmer's double clarinet, bagpipes, barrel drums, cross flutes, and short lutes. In all, India had no unique musical instruments until the post-classical era. [51]