A retainer of the Maha Rao of Kutch.

Gujarat, Maha Rao, Kutch, Traditional, India, clothing, Mortimer Menpes
A retainer of the Maha Rao of Kutch, Gujarat, India c. 1910.

A retainer of the Maha Rao of Kutch.

Traditional costume of Gujarat state in western India.

Source: The people of India. Painting by Mortimer Menpes. Published by Adam and Charles Black, London 1910.

Illustration, damasks, ornament
Note:  Créations de Couturiers Drecoll-Beer and Redfern, Paris 1929.
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