Inhabitants of Pluvigner, Bretagne 19th century. More:Princess according to the times of Anne De Bretagne, 1420 Middle Ages A Smuggler of Grand Bretagne, 1843. Manners, customs… 19th Century Arabian inhabitants… Read More
Free Mulatto of Lima, Peru. Mulâtresse libre, Lima. Source: Le Musée cosmopolite. Costumes actuels de tous les peuples, gravés sur acier par les premiers Graveurs de Paris. Paris, Ancienne Mon… Read More
The Burial of Atala. Francois Auguste Chateaubriand’s “Atala.” More:Dame du temps du roi François Ier. Lady of the time… Renaissance Dame de la cour du roi François Ier. XVIe siècle.… Read More
Pattern, Kelim technique, embroidery with silk, felt appliqué and sequins from Kumanovo, Vodna, Romanovce near Kumanovo, Skopje, Macedonia. Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb, Croatia.
Museum for Ethnology, Vienna, Austria. Romanian embroidery pattern designs of 19th century originals. Traditional embroidery from sleeve, shoulder and front of a shirt. Sleeve embroideries.
Kirghiz Sultan Beck and family. Kazakhstan. Sultan Beck and family, trained hunting-hawk and camels. More:The Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul of Sultan… Turkey Nathan the Wise. The Sultan Saladin and his… Read More
Zulu group. South Africa, 1876. More:India. The carpenters of Bengal. A Group of Sutars. India The paintings of the Bushmen in South Africa. 19th Century Sri Lanka. Group of Pandanus… Read More
Russian embroidery patterns of 19th century. More:Russian Yakut, inhabit of the Sakha Republic in 19th… Asia Silks and Flowing Patterns. Chinese and Japanese Art. 17th Century Specimens of Turkish embroidery.… Read More
Ryukyu Islands. Shō-Dynastie. Known as the Great Loo-Choo Island, Okinawa Japan.
The seppuku Hara Kiri (jap. 切腹) is a ritualized type of male suicide, which was spread around the middle of the twelfth century in Japan within the shift of the samurai and was officially banned in 1868.
