[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the province of Surı̈yè (Syria), Ottoman Empire]
Summary
(1): Christian mountain dweller of Zahlè (Zaḥlah) (2): Christian mountain dweller of Zgarta (Zgharta) and (3) Druze of Liban (Lebanon).
French caption from book: Syrie: Figure 1: Montagnard Chrétien de Zahlè (Liban.); Figure 2: Montagnard Chrétien de Zgarta (Liban.); Figure 3: Druse du Liban.
Caption also in Ottoman Turkish.
Part III, plate XXIX.
Illus. in: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873 / Hamdy bey ... et Marie de Launay ... phototypie de Sébah. Part III, plate XXIX (opposite p. 267).
Tags
Date
01/01/1873
Contributors
Sébah, Pascal, 1823-1886, photographer
Launay, Marie de, author
Osman Hamdi Bey, 1842-1910, author
Location
Zaḥlah (Lebanon), 33.85000, 51.59806
Source
Library of Congress
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