IDNO

P.50974.RDG

Description

Posed three-quarter length studio portrait of an Arab woman of High Egypt wearing woven patterned cloth in a toga style which also covers her head. She has a tattoo? marking between her eyebrows, and also on her forearm, and is wearing metal wrist ornaments.

Place

N Africa; Egypt; Northern Egypt [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]