The native opium grown in China, is generally considered the most inferior, and the Indian opium, especially Malwa and Patna, the best.
Category: Asia
Costume and fashion history of Asia. Manners and Customs. Collected from rare sources.
THE GRAND SEIGNEUR. The Turkish Sultan in 1749.
THE GRAND SEIGNEUR, taken from VIEN’S CARAVANNE, a book which represents the Dresses in a Turkish Masquerade given by the Pensioners of the French Academy at Rome, in the Year… Read More
Marquis Dufferin Ava with Armenian refugees.
Marquis Dufferin Ava with Armenian refugees at the hospital at Varna, Bulgaria 1896.
Habit of the Sultaness Queen in 1749.
Habit of the Sultaness Queen in 1749. La Sultane Reine. Consort of the Ottoman sultan. THE SULTANESS QUEEN, from VIEN’S CARAVANE *. The Habit of the Women, like that of… Read More
China 1897. The dying coolie by Isabella Bird Bishop.
THE DYING COOLIE 1897.
Kazuma Ogawa. Costumes & customs in Japan.
Costumes & customs in Japan by Kazuma Ogawa. Tokyo 1892
“No. I, Iidamachi, Shichome, Kojimachiku, Tokyo, Japan.”
The Tokchim Tarjum. The Forbidden Land, 1898.
The Tokchim Tarjum, 1898.
Tibet. Mo divination with bones, also called Sho-mo.
Mo is a form of foresight (also known as divination) that is part of Tibetan culture and religion.
The Armenian bishop of Djulfa, Azerbaidjan. c. 1886
The Armenian bishop of Djulfa, Azerbaidjan. c. 1886. The cathedral of Eschmiadsin.
Wakf property of Daniel. Visit to Sheikh Thae.
Wakf property of Daniel. Sheikh Thae. Visit to Sheikh Thaer, administrator of the Wakf property of Daniel, 1848. Iran. Khuzestan. Ab-Dizfoul and the secretaries of Sheikh Thaer. Drawing of Tofani,… Read More