Indian Procession, Colonial Avenue, Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908

Picture postcard showing a view of the Indian Procession along Colonial Avenue, White City. The procession includes an elephant carrying a billboard, probably advertising the show at the Indian Arena for which visitors had to pay an additional 1/- or 2/6. The daily programme describes the Indian Arena, that held up to 3,000 people, as 'A great open-air theatre in which a unique spectacle, Our Indian Empire, is performed. Here we find native acrobats, sorcerers, wrestlers, jugglers, and snake charmers. A realistic tiger hunt is shown, in which a dozen elephants pursue the great cat-like animals, gliding down a precipiece into a lake in the course of their exciting hunt'.