Diorama of a Slave Dance Diorama of a Slave Dance Diorama of a slave dance Diorama of a slave dance, The wooden case has a rising bottom and a curved back and top on the inside. The back wall is covered with painted paper with a forest and a blue sky with white clouds. The inside of the sides are also provided with blue with white clouds. The plastic representation consists of a small hut on the left in the background and a large hut with dancing figures in the center. The performance proposes a performance of a du. These (dance) communities held a party several times a year, giving performances that often had a socially critical charge. In the city there were several du's, competing with each other to give the best performance. Schouten has shown a party on a plantation. The dance tent is built of four stands on either side connected by five horizontal beams. The sides of the hut are open. At the back there is a kind of balustrade that separates the space from the outside space with the slave yards. The sloping roof of pina-leaf rests on beams that are erected from the joists. There is therefore a large open space in the cabin. On the left four male musicians. The first is a man who plays a flute, the loango tou-tou. He is wearing a light-colored and striped rug. To his right is a man playing a big drum, just like the man diagonally behind him. The fourth musician sits on a stool and plays a kwakwabangi with two sticks. Three women and a man dance in the center of the show. The woman closest to the musicians is probably the embarrassment, the narrator who explains the performance to the audience. She was the central figure of the du (= company and the play). Fulfilling the role of defamation was honorable and loved. The scamper is dressed in a long pleated skirt, over which she has draped another cloth (pangi). She is wearing a headscarf. She wears bracelets, necklaces and earrings. She holds a cloth in her hands. To the right of the scam, two women who are dressed

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