We made up a party one Friday to visit the Dancing Dervishes, at their pretty little white marble mosque at Pera.
Dancing Dervishes. Life on the Bosphorus. Doings in the city of the Sultan.
Category: Asia
Costume and fashion history of Asia. Manners and Customs. Collected from rare sources.
Bayadere. Indian dancer.
Bayadere. Indian dancer. More:Young India Hindu dancer costume, 19th century. 19th Century Indian plantation workers at Malabar around 1910. India Inner courtyard of an Indian harem of the Mughal period.… Read More
Oriental carpet. 15th century. Caucasus.
Carpet with conventionalized Animal-Figures: Incomplete Asia Minor or the Caucasus; First half of the 15th century. Length, 172 cm.; width, 90 cm. More:Ancient garden design. A Persian Royal Garden Carpet…… Read More
Olunchun woman hunter under Chinese Communism 1950s.
An Olunchun hunts woman makes some purchases in a co-operative.
Japan. Warlike Equipment of an old Japanese Archer.
On our board we reproduce in miniature an original Japanese picture showing the different phases of the clothing and equipment of an archer on foot. The picture seems to belong to the XVth century. In the 19th century the Japanese army was uniformed according to the European pattern.
Pitti-Sing. Victorian opera character.
Pitti-Sing. The Mikado. Victorian opera character. The Mikado is a comic opera in two acts by Gilbert and Sullivan (libretto by WS Gilbert, with music by Arthur Sullivan). More:Cornélie Falcon. Costume… Read More
Mongolia school boy under Chinese Communism 1950s.
Ssuyungpatu, a fourth-grade primary school pupil in the Olunchun Autonomous Banner in Inner Mongolia, answers his teacher.
Dinner at Crisso. In the house of the bishop of Salona.
This prelate is receiving the homage of a Greek peasant, who kisses the ground before he applies his lips to the bishop’s hand.
Entrance to the Tower of the Winds at Athens.
To the south-east of the Roman Agora is the octagonal Tower of the Eight Winds; the Clepsydra of Andronikos Kyrrheste described by Vitruviu.
The weekly market, bazar, or market-place of Athens.
Greeks, Turks, and Albanians are then seen mingled together; and while the variegated diversity of their costumes gratifies the eye of the beholder.