A Mahazi and a Soualeh Bedouin. The Oriental Album.

Prisse d'Avennes, Oriental, costumes, Soualeh, Mahazi, Bedouin,
A Mahazi and a Soualeh Bedouin

A Mahazi and a Soualeh Bedouin.

Source: The Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, And Modes Of Life, In The Valley Of The Nile. Published 1848. Drawings by Prisse d’Avennes 1807-1879. Lithographs by various artists. Printed by Lemercier in Paris, James Madden in London, and Madden & Malcolm in London.

David Roberts, holy, land, levante, palestine,
Note:  Clothing of the late antiquity and middle ages. 5th to 10th c.
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