Characters, Costumes, And Modes Of Life, In The Valley Of The Nile by Prisse d’Avennes.
Category: 19th Century
An Arab Sheikh in traditional costume. The Oriental Album.
Arab Sheikh Smoking. The Oriental Album by Prisse d’Avennes
A Caravan. Kafila with a Camel Bearing a Hodesh.
A caravan of camels has pitched their camp in an oasis.
A medicine man of the Meskwaki tribe.
Keesheswa is a medicine man of note in the Meskwaki tribe, and, so far as we can judge from appearances, is a devout believer in his science.
A Chippeway widow with the best of her late husband’s clothes.
A Chippeway widow, on the death of her husband, selects from his scanty wardrobe, a complete suit of his best clothes.
Isle of Marken Dutch costume in 1850.
Isle of Marken Dutch costume in 1850. Lobster fishermen and citizen on the sea shore in a conversation Published by Münchner Kostüm Bilder (Munich costume pictures)
Egyptian Dancing Girls. The Oriental Album.
Egyptian Dancing Girls Performing the Ghawazi at Rosetta, by Prisse d’Avennes.
Fishwife and fishermen from Scheveningen
Fishwife and fishermen in the harbor of Scheveningen, Dutch 1850
ESHTAHUMLEAH, A Sioux chief
He is one of the hereditary chiefs of the Teton tribe, of the Dacotah nation.
Citizens of the Dutch Isle of Marken in 1850
Citizens of the Dutch Isle of Marken in festive clothing
Published by Münchner Kostüm Bilder (Munich costume pictures)