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[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provinces of Hedjaz (Hejaz), Yemen and Tripoli, Ottoman Empire]

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[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provinces of Hedjaz (Hejaz), Yemen and Tripoli, Ottoman Empire]

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Summary

(1): Merchant of Moka (Yemen); (2): married Muslim woman of Mekkè (Mecca); and (3): young Moorish woman of Tripoli.

French caption from book: Hedjaz. Tripoli de Barbarie. Yémen: Figure 1: Négociant de Moka; Figure 2: Dame Musulmane de Mekkè; Figure 3: Jeune fille Moresque de Tripoli de Barbarie.
Caption also in Ottoman Turkish.
Part III, plate XLII.
Illus. in: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873 / Hamdy bey ... et Marie de Launay ... phototypie de Sébah. Part III, plate XLII (opposite p. 317).

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Date

01/01/1873
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Contributors

Sébah, Pascal, 1823-1886, photographer
Launay, Marie de, author
Osman Hamdi Bey, 1842-1910, author
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Location

Mecca (Saudi Arabia)21.42667, 39.82611
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