On special occasions, such as weddings or parties given in honor of a distinguished visitor, it is the correct thing in native society to give a „nautch,“ or dance.
The Nautch girls. Indian dancers.
Category: Asia
Costume and fashion history of Asia. Manners and Customs. Collected from rare sources.
The Mellon Seller. Indian Character.
The Mellon Seller This picture represents a woman of the Kulmbi caste, who is not by any means to be confounded with a coolie. A very low caste woman would… Read More
The Bania. A merchant from Mumbai
The Banias are perhaps the least educated of any of the middle class natives of the present day.
A Parsee School Girl in her traditional dress. Mumbai India 1899.
Her jacket may be of cloth, or of cotton, or silk, according to the season, but it is always cut in the same style, faIling just below the waist.
Assyrian, Babylonian costume history. Mesopotamia.
Fashion history of the Assyrian Empire. Mesopotamia and Babylonian culture.
Clothing of the Parsee, follower of the Zoroastrian faith.
The indoor male costume consists of a muslin shirt, a pair of loose white cotton trousers, a cotton waistcoat with sleeves, a skull cap and slippers.
Dame Chinoise. Chinese noble woman Qing Dynasty costume.
Dame Chinoise. Chinese Noble Woman 18th century. Costumes historiques par Achille Devéria
The Sinhalese dress in a sarong, which is formed of a long piece of cloth.
The Sinhalese men dress in a comboy (sarong or amude), which is formed of a long piece of cloth, sewn together at the two ends.
Native Servants of Mumbai.
Typical pictures of Indian Natives. By F. M. Coleman
The Arab horse dealers in India.
Arab horse dealers in India. In like manner to the Cabulis, the Arabs in India are mainly dealers in horses. In Bombay especially numbers of these men are to be… Read More