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Image Not Available for Performing Budgerigars (Australian Love Birds). The performance starts with the team of nine birds under the trainer's opera hat. At the sound of the fiddle, the birds emerge through a hole in the crown of the hat.
Performing Budgerigars (Australian Love Birds). The performance starts with the team of nine birds under the trainer's opera hat. At the sound of the fiddle, the birds emerge through a hole in the crown of the hat.
Image Not Available for Performing Budgerigars (Australian Love Birds). The performance starts with the team of nine birds under the trainer's opera hat. At the sound of the fiddle, the birds emerge through a hole in the crown of the hat.

Performing Budgerigars (Australian Love Birds). The performance starts with the team of nine birds under the trainer's opera hat. At the sound of the fiddle, the birds emerge through a hole in the crown of the hat.

Creator Dorien Leigh
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 21.2 x 14.5 cm (8 3/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
    Object number2002/5786
    LocationNot currently on display

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