Das Grab der Sittanā Mèjmū̄nah und Lager dorthin gepilgerter Mekkaner

Photograph shows the tents of pilgrims during the Hajj around the tomb of Sittanā Mèymūnah, one of the wives of the Prophet Muḥammad, on the outskirts of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Title from caption list in portfolio.
Caption continues: "(vergl. für die Beschreibung des Festes der Sittanā Mèjmūnah Mekka, Bd. II, S. 52 ff)". Translation: Compare with the description of the festival of Sittanā Mèymūnah, Mekka, Volume II, page 52 ff.
Plate no. VII in portfolio: Bilder aus Mekka, C. Snouck Hurgronje. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1889.
Photograph attributed to al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār by scholar Claude Sui. (Source: "Travel to the Holy Land and photography in the nineteenth century" by Claude Sui. Chapter in: To the Holy Lands: Pilgrimage centres from Mecca and Medina to Jerusalem. Mannheim: Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, 2008, pages 56-63)
Stamped with chop of former owner: Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha Tōa Keizai Chōsakyoku zōsho no in (in position of Southern Manchuria Railroad Co. East Asia Economic Research Division).