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Turkey - Studio portrait of a Furriers WifeTurkey - Studio portrait of a Jewish Furriers Wife who is wearing a remarkable long string of beads. Date: circa 1920
Masai, KenyaKenya, Masai warriors in genuine traditional clothes and carrying spears with tips protected by feathered su-sus Date: 1987
The Duchess of York (later Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) (1900-2002). Date: circa 1933
Kenshoin, wife of Yamanouchi Kazutoyo. Date: circa 1610
Buddhist Priest in Northern India (Tibet). Date: circa 1908
Sudan - Three Sudanese Women. Date: circa 1910s
Bisharin woman from Aswan, Egypt. The Bisharin tribe live in the eastern part of the Nubian Desert in Sudan and southern Egypt. Date: circa 1910s
Bisharin Girl - EgyptBeautiful portrait photograph of a Bisharin Girl with braided hair, beads and long tunic - Egypt Date: circa 1910s
Girl from Swaziland - Southern Africa Date: circa 1910s
India - A Hindu Man dressed as the Hindu God Lord Shiva. Date: circa 1906
A Nubian Girl - Egypt Date: circa 1910s
Two Indigenous Alaskan WomenTwins - Two Indigenous Alaskan native Women wearing strings of beads (and little more..). Date: circa 1910s
Miss Maud Allan as SalomeMiss Maud Allan (1873-1956) actress, dancer and choreographer in the role of Salome - performing at the Varietes, Paris. She designed and often sewed her own costumes, which were creative
Turkish DervishA Turkish Dervish. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth
Girl from Gabon, AfricaStriking young woman from Gabon, Africa. She displayes traditional body scarification on the upper section of her right arm, close to the shoulder
Dinka Man - Sudan, AfricaA fine portrait photograph of a man of the Dinka Tribe, Sudan, showing ritual scarification on the chest, headdress, neck beads and wound torc
Fanny Brice in Come Over Here by Mizner and PembertonCome Over Here, Revue by Wilson Mizner and Max Pemberton. A second card of Fanny Brice at the London Opera House confirms her star status
Claudian by Henry Herman & W. G. WillsClaudian by Henry Herman (1832 - 1894) and W.G. (William Gorman) Wills (28 January 1828 13 December 1891). First produced at the Princesss Theatre in London on 6th December 1883
Two women in costume with horse in studio photoTwo women in costume, one dressed as a cowboy, the other dressed as a native American Indian, with a horse in a studio photo. circa 1910
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) Toucouleurs (Fula) WomanA Fula (Toucouleurs) Woman from Bukina Faso (Upper Volta), a landlocked country in West Africa. Date: circa 1920s
Suk el Turk - Tripoli, LibyaMyanmar - Women of the Akha Tribe in traditional headdresses. Speakers of Tai languages in Myanmar and Thailand refer to them as " gaw" or " ekaw" (ikaw/ikho)
Sudan - Sudanese Woman performing the Wind Dance. Date: circa 1920s
A Fula Woman - Senegal, West Africa - displaying distinctive traditional ornamental headwear and hairstyle, large single-bead necklace and hooped earrings
Chinese Mandarin and ServantRich Chinese Mandarin and Servant / Attendant. A Mandarin was a senior government bureaucrat of Imperial China. Date: circa 1905
Burmese Princess in Traditional costume (State Robes). Date: circa 1903
Hanging Sleeves 1930SA gown somewhat mediaeval in style with a deep V neckline, slender trained skirt & hanging sleeves worn with a belt composed of two rows of silver beads. Date: 1930s
Evening gowns 1910French models wearing v necked evening gowns. Date: 1910
Costumes of Canadian natives: Nipissing and Ottowa people.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840
American ladies coat fashion 1924Collection of 1920s American coats, from a clothing catalogue. Date: 1924
Domestic interior with beaded curtainA domestic interior with a beaded curtain with another, flowery curtain on either side. Pictures stand on easels on either side, and there are various potted plants
A Matabele WarriorSouth Africa - A Matabele Warrior, wearing a distinctive (and spectacular) neck decoration with a variety of sharp animal horns forming a fearsome spectacle
Ainu Couple - JapanThe Ainu (also called Aynu, Aino and in historical texts Ezo) - indigenous people or groups in Japan (Hokkaido) and Russia (Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands). Ainu men often wear heavy beards
Girl from Bukina Faso - ProfilePretty Girl from Bukina Faso - shot in profile and showing the distinctive braided hairstyle, and varieties of beads worn around the head as well as the neck
Dinka Man with elaborate head and neck decoration - Sudan, Africa. Date: circa 1910s
Djibouti, East Africa - A Young girl cleans her teethDjibouti, East Africa (then French Somaliland) - A Young girl cleans (the exact translation is " rubs" ) her teeth. Date: 1905
A Maratha Priest, India. The Maratha are an Indian warrior caste, found predominantly in the state of Maharashtra. Date: circa 1902
Design for Textile with colourful feathers. Gouache on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1926
Samoan Girl - FijiBeautiful photographic portrait of a Samoan Girl - Fiji - note the coral and bean beads. Date: circa 1910s
Kahloah from Martinique from the 1935 Blackbird revueA leading member of the cast of Lew Leslies Blackbirds of 1935, Kahloah, a nineteen year old girl from Martinique whose dancing says The Sketch, is absolutely sensational
Herero man, German South West AfricaA native Herero man in German South West Africa (now Namibia), either before or during the First World War. A rebellion by the Hereros against the German colonists took place between 1904 and 1907
South African woman carrying goods on her headA south african woman, carrying her baby on her back with a wide variety of other goods balanced somewhat precariously (or so it seems to the uninitiated) on her head, including pans, rugs, mats
Female Hippy 1967HIPPIES A spaced-out hippy woman, wearing the obligatory flowers in her hair, transfers, beads, tinsel and floaty layers of chiffon etc. Date: August 1967
Slovenia - National CostumeSlovenia - Pretty young woman in National Costume a very pretty long floral dress and holding a bouquet of roses. This card was sold in Gorizia (Gorica) on the Italian/Slovenian border
A Sadhu smoking a remarkable pipe, IndiaA Sadhu (Indian ascetic holy man) smoking a remarkable curvy pipe
India - A Brahmin worshippingA Brahmin worshipping in India. He is sitting cross-legged making an offering at a low table
Hubert & Jan Van EyckHUBERT & JAN VAN EYCK Flemish artists and brothers
Young woman in fancy dress, Ealing, West LondonYoung woman (Lucy Auerbach, age 16) in fancy dress, with a British flag, in her garden at Ealing, West London. 1906
Charming coiffures for the spring season 1912Coiffures and headdresses shown in the photograph were very popular accessories from the latest fashion from Paris. 1912