Chinese National Day. Tien An Men parade 1954. National Day, October 1- here in Pecking’s Tien An Men Square, Chairman Mao Tse-tung reviews the marching columns of the paraders. Source:… Read More
Tien An Men parade. Chinese National Day 1954.
Category: 20th Century
Oriental Costumes. Farasia. Kaftan. North Africa, Morocco.
The Farasia, Kaftan. This garment is a shirt-dress with wide sleeves, it is buttoned over the chest.
Djellaba. North Africa, Marocco.
This hooded garment serves as an outer dress and replaces the burnoose or sulham.
India. The carpenters of Bengal. A Group of Sutars.
A Group of Sutars, Carpenters, Bengal. Mongolo-Dravidian Type.
Limbu. Male and female.
Limbu. Male and female.
A Female Tibetan Lama with amulets. Tibetan frontier.
A Lama woman from the Tibetan frontier: Mongoloid Type. From a Photograph by Messrs. Johnston and Hoffmann, Calcutta. A Female Tibetan Lama with amulets. An amulet is a portable object… Read More
Bagdad. Taking Stores Aboard on the Tigris by Means of Guffas.
A Guffa was a traditional, usually plaited reeds, round basket boat, which was used on the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq until the 1970s.
Marriage Hut of Arab Fellahin with the Newly Married Couple.
Marriage Hut of Arab Fellahin with the Newly Married Couple.
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.