IDNO

P.50973.RDG

Description

Posed studio half-length portrait of an Arab woman with burkha (veil) removed and draped over her shoulder. She is wearing customary clothing with a head scarf and braided hair. She has tattooing on her face between her eyebrows, under her bottom lip, on left breast, and hands.

Place

N Africa; ?Egypt; ?Cairo [?High Egypt]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Art. A. Lekegian & Co. [Studio]

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa 1887 - 1908

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print was found in an envelope now marked C239/ which was inside the wooden drawer I.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 2/7/2007]