Head Dress Gallery

A Rehearsal of the Wild West show

A series of sketches by Ralph Cleaver of rehearsals for Colonel Cody's "Wild West" show at Olympia, including Sioux braves racing horses, cow girls and cowboys, Mexican vaqueros using lassos and an exhibition of cossack riding

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10411800

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A court dress to curtsey in from Harvey Nichols, 1935

Advertisement for the department store, Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge, London, advertising a gown of classic simplicity to wear to a court presentation, encircles at the waist by a twisted gold-thread belt with a train of ruched chiffon'. To demonstrate its suitability, the model wearing it is pictured mid-curtsey Date: 1935

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Kinich Ahau, Mayan sun god. 500-800. Classical

Kinich Ahau, Mayan sun god. 500-800. Classical period. Maya Solar God. Face of the god with a bird headdress. He rests on the face of the Water God Jajun. Detail of a grotesque head. Maya art. Relief on stucco. MEXICO. Mexico City. National Museum of Anthropology. Proc: MEXICO. Campeche

© Mary Evans/J. Bedmar/Iberfoto

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