A Bedouin girl in a shirt-like garment, called “mig wal”. Next to her is an Egyptian Fruit Vendor. She wears a cape or cloak, jilbab, Jilaabah called. Her head is covered by a veil, the niqab.
Tambourine player in the jilbab. Veiled water wearer in a chador. Servant with a turban, tarboosh, vests, harem pants belted with a wide cloth that Sal Sapik, (SAL û Sapik “pants and shirt”).
A young Bedouin with Kufiyya, Jilbab and jacket. Nubian slave girl wearing a caftan over a light of woolen dress. Egyptian woman in street clothing.
The history of costumes. Mesopotamia. Assyrian, Babylonian costume history.
On the history of costumes. Thirty-fourth sheet. XVth century. Assyrians, Persians, Medes.
Costumes and court dresses of Medes nobility. Ancient female and male clothing.
On the history of costumes. Thirty-fourth sheet. Antiquity. Assyrians, Persians, Medes. Münchener Bilderbogen No. 635. Illustration by A. Müller. Persian warrior. Noble Persian. Persian Warrior. Source: Münchener Bilderbogen 1848 to… Read More
Different Ptolemaic and their Queens. Headdresses and crowns. Successors of Alexander the Great.
Almeh was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt. The term became synonymous with ‘belly dancer’ in 19th-century European Orientalism.
Egypt. Nubian in traditional dress from 1850 smokes a pipe. In the army and in police service, the Nubians played a major role at all times.
