Loin Cloth Collection

Mahatma Gandhi spinning at his wheel
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, spinning at his wheel (Charakha) in 1931, demonstrating his strong work ethic

Ancient Roman athletes boxing in leather gloves
Ancient Roman athletes boxing wearing a cestus (leather glove) on each hand

Philippines - Igorote Chieftain. Igorot are the people of the Cordillera region, on the Philippino Island of Luzon. The smaller group of the Igorot live in the east and north of the Island

Ivory Coast - Scarification
Scarification on a womans belly in the form of a large spider. The woman is from the Bobo Tribe in Ivory Coast

Young Woman from Senegal wearing only a decorated loincloth and an orange necklace. Date: circa 1910s

Czech Republic - Sokol Rally in Prague
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Wagon driver - Madhya Pradesh - India
A young Indian man driving a wagon in the Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Manicure and Pedicure - India
Indian man offering a manicure and a pedicure at Puducherry

Transporting wood - India
Wooden ox-pulled carts filled with wood pause at the roadside in the Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Mendicant Priest or Fakir - Hinduism - India

Singhalese Villager - Sri Lanka
A young man from a Singahlese Village in Sri Lanka poses for a photograph amid some banana plants, holding a seriously lethal-looking cleaver!

Exotic bedtime
A man wearing just a loincloth gently covers a woman with long blonde hair with her bed sheets

Ancient Roman athletes playing handball

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