A ring of Bosnian dancers performs the kolo — the ancient South Slavic circle dance — in traditional dress: women in full white skirts and embroidered bodices, headscarves streaming; men in the knee-length breeches, colorful vests, and white caps of the region. The kolo, danced at weddings, festivals, and village celebrations, was one of the most visible symbols of Bosnian folk culture and was actively documented by Austro-Hungarian publishers as part of their ethnographic interest in their newly acquired territory after the occupation of 1878. This Photochrom card was published by Daniel A. Kajon of Sarajevo — the city's first and most important postcard publisher, who opened his printing house in 1892 and produced the earliest dated postcard of Sarajevo. The multilingual reverse — with text in Serbian Cyrillic, Serbo-Croatian, German, Hungarian, and French — reflects the complex administrative reality of Austro-Hungarian Bosnia. Never mailed.

• Caption: Kolotanz in Bosnien.
• Card no.: 7539
• Publisher: Verlag v. Daniel A. Kajon, Sarajevo
• Status: Unposted