Portraits of two malabar girls of Si Lanka. Malabar (Malayalam) is a region in India of today’s state of Kerala.
Sri Lanka Tamils. Portraits of two malabar girls in their traditional costume.
Category: Asia
Costume and fashion history of Asia. Manners and Customs. Collected from rare sources.
Vincenzo Belluti. Dragoman of Malta. Guide in the Middle East.
Dragoman Vincenzo Belluti as guide interpreter, cook, and general servant, in their Tour up the Nil by Lady Catherine Tobin.
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.
The Howling Dervishes. Muslim ascetic orders. Ecstatic Dances.
Muslim ascetic orders. Ecstatic Dances. Life on the Bosphorus. Doings in the city of the Sultan. Turkey, past and present, including chronicles of the Caliphs from Mahomet to Abdul Hamid II. by William J. J. Spry.
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
A Porter from Istanbul.
A Porter from Istanbul.
Ornamental Metal Work from East India.
Ornamental Metal Work. Ornamented Weapons, etc. Contributed by the Rao of Kutch.
The Door of Felicity. The Harem of the Sultan’s private apartments.
Life on the Bosphorus. Doings in the city of the Sultan. Turkey, past and present, including chronicles of the Caliphs
Shahrazade a Turkish lady of high rank made her escape from the Harem.
On Thursday, July 1st, a Turkish lady of high rank made her escape from the Harem of the ex-Sultan Murad, and sought British protection.