Ecuador woman with Panama hat 1930s. Babies swing in cloths or shawls knotted over the mother´s shoulders. Natives of Ecuador´s province of Manabe weave from fine palm fiber the so… Read More
Ecuador woman with Panama hat.
Category: America
Native of Dutch Guiana in traditional folk dress.
Native of Dutch Guiana in traditional folk dress 1930s. The three Guianas – British, Dutch and French – are the only South American countries under European domination; all the others are… Read More
Peasant from Uruguay in traditional folk dress.
Peasant from Uruguay in traditional folk dress.
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World Paperback – December 7, 2021
by Virginia Postrel (Author)
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles truly changed the world” (Wall Street Journal)
Inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego. Different types of aboriginal. Argentine.
The original inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, the Yamana or Yaghan, Haush, Selk’nam and Kawesqar people, almost completely exterminated by white settlers during the colonization.
Mexican street scene in 1863.
Mexican street scene in 1863. Costumes of different ethnicities.
Caribbean Milk seller from Guadeloupe
Milk seller from Guadeloupe. Milk seller from Guadeloupe. A West Indian inhabitant. Cruising among the Caribbees, summer days in winter months (1895) by Charles Augustus Stoddard. (Free eBook)
Cruising among the Caribbees. A West Indian Type Woman.
A West Indian Type Woman c. 1900. From the book: Cruising among the Caribbees; summer days in winter months (1903), by Charles Augustus Stoddard (free eBook)
Native American, First nation from Florida.
Native American, First nation from Florida in 1830. Assembly of the Native Americans in Florida to war. Squaws from Florida lament their men killed in the war. From “Full Peoples Gallery… Read More
Residents of Norton Sound of the Bering Sea, Alaska.
Inhabitants of Norton Sound of the Bering Sea, Alaska. From “Full Peoples Gallery in images of all nations” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche, Meissen, 1840.
Apache medicine shirts. The medicine-men of the Apache.
Apache medicine shirts. The medicine-men of the Apache by John Gregory Bourke. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
