Ryukyu Islands. Shō-Dynastie. Known as the Great Loo-Choo Island, Okinawa Japan.
Category: Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical dresses and antiques. Medieval, Byzantine.
Bukyan. An Ida or Brahmin of Bali.
Bukyan.
Spanish costume. Cordelier of the order of Saint Francis.
Friar of the Order of St. Francis. Costume Espagnol. Cordelier de l’ordre de saint François. Source: Costumes historiques, de la ville ou de théâtre et travestissements. Author: Achille Devéria (French, 1800–1857)… Read More
Fra ‘Jean de la Valette, Grand Master of the Military Order of Malta.
Fra ‘Jean de la Valette, Jean Parisot de La Valette, (1494 – 1568) was the 49th Grand Master of the Military Order of Malta
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.
Hebron. The Cave of Machpelah. Oriental and Sacred Scences.
Oriental and Sacred Scences, from notes of travel in Greece, Turkey and Palestine by Howe Fisher.
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
The Pool of Hezekiah, and the Domes of the Church of the Resurrection.
View of the Pool Amygdalon or Hezekiah, and the Domes of the Church of the Resurrection. The Hospice of Saladin. Minaret of Omar. Dome of the Greek Chapel.
Dancing Dervishes. Life on the Bosphorus. Doings in the city of the Sultan.
We made up a party one Friday to visit the Dancing Dervishes, at their pretty little white marble mosque at Pera.
Création d’un chevalier au 15ème siècle. L’armure du jeune chevalier.
L’ÉCLAT de la chevalerie commença à s’obscurcir dans le XIVe siècle, et s’éclipsa entièrement vers la fin du XVe.