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Initially she was entranced with Egyptian culture and imagery from her late teens, after seeing an image of the goddess Isis on an advertisement for Turkish cigarettes, and with Indian dance having seeing dancers in an East Indian Village at Coney Island in 1904 where, she recalled in her autobiography: 'the fascination of India caught hold of me'. She began avidly reading about the different cultures, and on her long 1906-09 European tour including several visits to London she presented her Indian Temple Dance <i>Radha, Incense </i>an Art Nouveau dance inspired by Delsartean undulating arm movements and Cobras a snake charmer, street dance inspired by <i>The Streets of Delhi</i> at Coney Island. 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