Identifier
CL_UF_GIG.6A.006 (local)

Repository
City Lore

Alternate Title
Capos (Alternative Title)
July 1981 (Alternative Title)

Date
July 1981 (Date created)

Summary
Color slides from the Giglio festival which happens every July in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  It is the patron saint festival of St. Paulinus from Nola, Italy. "Capos" is short for "Capo-Paranza", or "Head of the Lifters" in Italian. They choose and lead the dance that the Giglio tower dances to. This folder includes images of people from 1981.

Creator and/or Contributor
Martha Cooper (photographer)

Extent
83 (color slides)

Language
English (Dialects)

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