Head Dress Collection (page 5)

Poster advertising Sabena flights from Belgium to the Congo and South Africa. A native in traditional headdress looks up at a plane in the sky

Interpreter and guard for travellers
A superb postcard showing an interpreter and guard that a traveller could hire for translation and protection!

Dancing girl from Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey
A Dancing Girl from Smyrna (Izmir) Turkey, holding a tamborine and standing before a small inlaid Mother-of-pearl octagonal table witha Hookah Pipe on top

Turkish woman with long white veil
A postcard from Egypt depicting a Turkish Ottoman Woman wearing a long white veil

Turkish woman in Egypt
A Turkish Woman in Egypt

Salonica - Group of Women from Kiretch-Kieuy, drawing water from a well (albeit one in the photographers studio!)

Bedouin Man - Syria / Israel
Middle Eastern Bedouin Man

Turkish peasant family group
A Turkish peasant family group photograph. Situated on their farm in Central Anatolia. The seated mans two wives wear traditional headdresses as befits married women

Persian lady - Art Nouveau
A persian woman in art nouveau style wearing elaborate gilt headdress

Oriental Ottoman Beauty
An Ottoman beauty from Egypt, with large hooped earrings, beads, headdress and floral jerkin

Oriental Beauty from Constantinople
An Oriental Beauty from Constantinople with fancy headdress and many layers of beads. These women are known as the nomads and they are decorated by their men, who weigh them down with jewellery!

Georgian Women in Baku, Azerbaijan

Armenian ladies of Akalzik, Caucasus
A group of Armenian ladies of Akalzik, Caucasus

Chief Red Cloud - Sioux Chieftain
Native American Chieftain of the Sioux Tribe - Chief Red Cloud

Syrian Merchant
A fine portrait photograph of a Merchant from Syria (in Egypt)

Bedouin Man - Egypt with fine draped headdress and neatly clipped moustache

Clear - A Native American man with bow & arrows
Clear - A Native American man with extensive body painting, posing with bow and arrows and a spectacular headdress made from a whole stuffed parrot!

Kashgar Trip - Uyghur Woman - Headdress
Indigenous Uyghur woman of Kashgar with a remarkable headdress. A wonderful photographic portrait by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Two Kenyan Men
A fabulous photographic portrait of two Kenyan Tribesmen in full traditonal costume. They wear Ostrich Feathers in their hair and one holds a fly whisk

Kenyan Men in full ceremonial attire

Bulgarian National Costumes. A couple at Ruse, Bulgaria (possibly about to get married??)

Card of Yogi Fazalelahi Sheikh
The card of Yogi Fazalelahi Sheikh - the Great Fire Walker and Famous Spiritualist

Arab Woman with fine earrings - Egypt
Arab Woman with fine crescent moon-shaped earrings - Egypt

Saudi Arabian Bedouin man. The fascinating aspect of this card is that it was produced in Japan

Egypt - Cairo - Kasr-el-Nil Bridge and Girl
Egypt - Cairo - The entrance to the Pont de Ghazirah - a bridge over the Nile at Cairo built by a French Ironworks. When Egypt became British, the two statues of the (very English) lions were added

Sergeant - 1st Foot - Royal Scots Regiment - Light Infantry Battalion. The horn badge on his headdress indicates light infantry

Woman from Albania near Scutari
Woman from the Mountain region of Albania near Scutari in traditional costume

Morocco - Dressing a Moroccan Moorish Bride
Dressing a Moroccan Moorish Bride in traditional costume in preparation for her wedding

A Malay Bride in South Africa in all her finery for the Big Day. A lot of immigrants fro South East Asia and India came to South Africa at the end of the 19th century

Lesguinka Dance - Russian Cossack Dance
Lesguinka Dance - Traditional Russian Cossack Dance

Russian Peasant Woman
A smiling Russian Peasant Woman in thick lined sheepskin caot and a wrap headdress to ward off the very cold winter weather

Namibia - Railway Station scene
Ladies of Walvise Bay, Namibia (formerly German South West Africa)

Dancing Couple - 1920s
A twenties dancing couple - Madame is wearing a very fine white feather head adornment and Sir is dapper in white tie and very shiny shoes

Black African dancer - Egypt
A Black African dancer in Egypt wearing a feathered headdress, playing an elaborate harp

Egyptian Tribesman holding a long pipe
A fine portrait of an Egyptian Tribesman holding a long pipe

Bisharin Man holding a spear, whilst riding his camel
Bisharin Man with a spear on the back of his camel. The Bisharin are a Sunni Muslim tribe of the Beja nomadic ethnic group in the eastern part of the Nubian Desert in Sudan

Southern Egyptian African dancers
The Eccentric dancers of Southern Egypt (modern Sudan), complete with drummer and elaborate headresses

Children have fun dressing up
Three children (two girls and a boy) dressed up as a fairy queen, a red indian and a nurse. Ink drawing with watercolour washes by Malcolm Greensmith

Red Indian pair at Earls Court
Mr and Mrs Spotted Weasel - Sioux Indians taking part in the Red Man Spectacle at Earls Court, London

Feather Headdress 1796
A caricature of the extravagant fashions of the period. The womans headdress is composed of ostrich plumes & an aigrette. Date: 1796

American Indians: The Red River Territory. Little Fox, A Cre
Indian Chief smoking a long pipe wearing beads and feathered headdress

Matabele / Call to Arms
A Matabele call to arms

Diane De Poitiers / Hargra
DIANE DE POITIERS Mistress of Henri II of France Date: 1499 - 1566

1860 Costume / Women & Boy
Boy: forage cap, knickerbocker suit with side buttoning tunic. Women: dress with single flounce, Swiss belt & unusual headdress; grey & blue, double-breasted coat

Mantles / Pardessus 1862
Red mantle with pagoda sleeves, lattice & ribbon headdress. Black mantle with pagoda sleeves & pockets trimmed with tassels, green dress & lace bonnet & plume

Fashions for April 1851
Evening corsages including a lace bertha & bows (echelles); fringed green pardessus; black lace edged mantle with collar; purple morning dress: jacket corsage with tabbed basque

Pocahontas / Macdonald
POCAHONTAS alias MATOAKA American Indian princess, daughter of Powhatan, wife of John Rolfe, seen here in native costume

Central Africans
Left, a man and woman of Timbuktu : on their right, two people of the Tibbo people

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