Head Dress Collection (page 2)

Prince Nguyen Phuc Canh of Cochin China (Vietnam). At the age of seven he visited France to sign an alliance between France and Vietnam (the Treaty of Versailles, 1787)

Madame Pompadour (1721-1764). Portrait by Francois Boucher (
Francois Boucher (1703-1770). French painter. Madame Pompadour, 1758. Detail. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Slab with relief of a male winged sphinx. 358-338 BC. Persep
Slab with relief of a male winged sphinx wearing divine horned head-dress. 358-338 BC. Originally part of the facade of the Palace G, built by King Artaxerxes III

La Mestiza. 1887. Romanticism. Painting. SPAIN. Vilanova i la Geltr� ctor Balaguer Museum-Library

Evening headwear by Lewis and Judith Barbier
A selection of evening headwear from the 1920s, three designed by Lewis and four by Judith Barbier. Date: 1924

Israel - A Bedouin man from Beersheba
Israel - An elderly Bedouin man from Beersheba, the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. He wears a Keffiyeh headdress, held on by a rope circlet or Agal. Date: circa 1920s

Samoan Girl - Fiji
Beautiful photographic portrait of a Samoan Girl - Fiji - note the coral and bean beads. Date: circa 1910s

Shah Jaha of India and Mumtaz Mahal
Emperor Shah Jahan of India (1592-1666) and his favourite wife Mumtaz Mahal (1593-1631): when she died, he employed 20, 000 craftsmen to construct the Taj Mahal in her memory

Young Mapuche Indians - South America
Young Mapuche Indians. The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. Date: circa 1906

Girl - Myanmar
Young Girl - Myanmar - standing in front of a traditional house with a fantastic woven reed wall Date: circa 1910s

A young Moorish Woman of Senegal Date: circa 1910s

Guinea, Africa - A Fula Woman from Timbo
Guinea, Africa - A woman from Timbo - a town and sub-prefecture in the Mamou Prefecture in the Mamou Region of Guinea. It is located in the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea

The Magpie Magazine
An Advertisement for the holiday magazine The Magpie published on 5th July 1923 depicting a glamorous woman in an elaborate black and white dress on a tree branch accompanied by two magpies

Advertising card for the Copacabana Club, NY
Advertising card for the Copacabana Club, New York, NY, USA. Minimum charge for entry of five dollars and fifty cents (per person)

Rosita Forbes at the Jewels of Empire ball`
Miss Rosita Forbes (1893-1967) British traveller, socialite and author (later Mrs A. McGrath) pictured as Rubies at the Jewels of Empire Ball

Kurdish soldiers in Turkish army, WW1
Kurdish soldiers in the Turkish army, defenders of Trabzon (Trebizond) on the Black Sea during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Three ladies in evening dresses by Paul Poiret and Beer
Three fashionable ladies in evening dresses. On the left, violet, gold and black with a pleated crepe de chine hem, and a large gold fan, by Paul Poiret

Arab Scout giving keffiyeh to Baden-Powell
An Arab Scout presenting the Chief Scout (Lord Baden-Powell) with an Arab keffiyeh. 1930s

Kenya, Africa - Old Man from pygmy tribe Date: circa 1910s

Republic of Kosovo - Traditional costume and dancing in the countryside

A Bedouin Guard with his trusty steed
A wonderful photographic card showing a Palestinian Bedouin Guard, a rifle across his back and his horse, with decorated tack

Algerian Woman - Handkerchief Dance
An Algerian woman doing the handkerchief dance - Algeria

Moorish Woman - Algeria
A stunning postcard depiction of a Moorish woman - leaning against a doorway in a fabulous floral print dress with headdress Date: 1908

Woman of the Berber Algerian tribe of Ouled Nail
Woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

Affluent Algerian Bedouin Woman
An affluent Algerian Bedouin Woman, her jewellery a brash show of visible wealth

Sudanese Woman with Cowry Shell decoration
Sudanese Woman, wearing a fantastic decorated nosering, headdress made out of small white cowrie (cowry) shells and topped with large feathers. Her dress is also edged with small shells and beads

Old man in traditional costume - Albania - amking a cigarette using a cigarette holder

Central African Republic - Baya People (Gbaya), comprising 34% of the population

Sudanese Woman in traditional Costume seemingly emerging from a small localised Nile River mist (!) with the pyramids lightly visible in the rear

Dinka Tribesmen in carved-out canoe
A group of African Sudanese Dinka men in and around two canoes (for use on the River Nile) carved out of whole tree trunks

Arab Sheikh with his Falcon, Kuwait

Father / Baby / Prague 1870
Young Czech father holding a baby in traditional christening robes and headdress

Black & White Costume
Redfern dress & coat in black & white for the theatre: wrap- over V -neck dress with fur- trimmed hem & train, kimono style coat with deep fur collar & cuffs

Portrait of Manuela Camas y de las Heras, Consort to Juan Ag
Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Spanish romantic painter. Portrait of Manuela Camas y de las Heras, Consort to Juan Agustin Cean Bermudez. C. 1785, Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Old woman with a headdress. Pre-Columbian art. Sculpture on rock. MEXICO. Mexico City. National Museum of Anthropology. Proc: MEXICO. VERACRUZ

Queen of Sheba Royal Court. Story of King Salomon and Queen of Sheba, Ethiopia, 20th c. Painting. Private Collection

Golden copper mask (3rd c. AD), part of a headdress. Moche or Mochica Art. PERU. Sipᮮ Royal Tombs of Sipᮠ Museum

Cambridge / Augusta / Thomso
AUGUSTA OF HESSE DUCHESS of CAMBRIDGE Wife of Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge Date: 1797 - 1889

Syrian Tribal Girl
A very striking Syrian Tribal Girl in traditional costume. Date: circa 1930s

Schoolchildren dressed as Red Indians, Walton, Essex
A group of schoolchildren dressed as Red Indians at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, with their teacher standing at the back. They were performing a play based on Hiawatha

Suri-sicuris Dance - La Paz, Bolivia
This dance originates from the Altiplano region of Bolivia and existed already before the arrival of the Spaniards. The dancers of Suri-sicuris (Aymara words suri (" ostrich")

Peru - Forest Indians - Indigenous people of Peru. Date: circa 1909

Russian beauty in profile - with golden headdress and a golden shoulder strap on her dainty dress. Date: 1909

Portrait of a pretty smiling Russian girl, wearing an elaborate part-feather headress over her dark brunette curls, . Date: 1916

Bolivian dancer in decorated costume
The translation of the caption of this card is rather lovely: " A great dancer in fancy dress embroidered in gold" La Paz, Bolivia Date: circa 1910s

American lady dressed as Red Indian Girl
A very (non-native!) American lady dressed as a Red Indian Girl with long brunette braided hair and full feather headdress, necklace and squaws kaftan. Date: 1913

Elderly Swiss Spinner at hew wheel. She is wearing a remarkable headdress / scarf and is working a very elegant wooden wheel. Date: circa 1910s

Sudanese soldier with remarkable hat
Sudanese soldier - with scarification on his cheeks and wearing a quite extraordinary hat. Date: 1910s

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