THE personal Napoleon, the Napoleon of private and social life, loved the world’s finer things.
Napoleon Bonaparte attired in a Royal Tailored sack suit.
Category: 1916
Fashion and Costumes from 1916
Paper Streamers placed on graves. Old Chinese Customs.
Buddhist and Confucian beliefs differ on souls’ knowledge of their afterlife resting places.
Variegated dress known as that of the “hundred families”.
In China, a tradition involves creating a child’s dress from begged cloth pieces to invoke blessings and protection, known as “Peh-kia-i.”
Sadko by Natalia Goncharova. Opera costume, 1916.
Opera costume for Sadko by Natalia Goncharova. Russian folk tale.
ICONS. THE VLADIMIR MADONNA.
Note on the Vladimir Madonna, Vladimirskaya.- Note on the St Alexis Icon. By Robert Steele, Leonard Wharton.
Mindanao natives playing the Kutiyapi. Philippines.
The kutiyapi, or kudyapi, is an indianized Filipino two-stringed, fretted boat-lute. It is the only stringed instrument among the Maguindanao people, and one of several among other groups such as the Maranao and Manobo.
Igorot or Cordillerano Native. Ifugao couple. Philippine Islands.
The Igorot (also Cordillerano) are an indigenous people living on the Philippine island of Luzon.
Filipina of the Batan Islands with grass hood.
The Batan Islands are an archipelago of the Philippines. They are located north of the Philippine main island of Luzon in the Strait of Luzon and belong to the province of Cagayan.
Bagobo or Manobo man with pointed teeth from the Philippines.
The Bagobo also Manobo, Manuvu, Obbo, Obo, are indigenous peoples of the Philippines.
Boxing Scenes by George Wesley Bellows.
George Wesley Bellows 1882 -1925 was known especially for his paintings of urban life in New York.