'Aden Arab'. Photographer: Unknown
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Aden Arab'. Photographer: Unknown
- Creator:
- Author: Frederick Mercer Hunter
- Date:
- 1873/1877
- Description:
- Abstract: Genre/Subject Matter:This full-length standing studio portrait of an Arab man is intended to demonstrate an ethnic or class ‘type’. In particular, this image is intended to illustrate the habits of dress as described by Frederick Mercer Hunter in the preceding pages (pp. 43-44). Hunter describes these as follows:‘The Arabs of Aden have adopted the dress of the people inhabiting the Lahej district. This consists, in the male sex, Firstly, of a turban (doosmal) of Surat manufacture […] Secondly.—A loose jacket (shaiah), reaching to the hips, made of white or dyed cotton […] Thirdly.—A sort of kilt (maawiz) made of cotton, with a white coloured border […] Fourthly.—Over the left shoulder is hung a sort of scarf (radîf), made of cotton […] Fifthly.—Sandals (madâs) [...].’The man in this image is leaning on a stick in his left hand and appears to have markings, perhaps tattoos, on his calves: one immediately above his right ankle, one below his left knee.Inscriptions:In pencil, upper right corner adjacent to print: ‘6’Physical description: Dimensions:92 x 57 mm [portrait]Format:1 albumen print pasted to backing paper and mounted between pp. 44-45Materials:Silver printing-out paper, albumen printCondition:The print is unevenly hand-cut but in good condition, with some minute stains in the upper left corner.Foliation:‘6’Process:Albumen print
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Photograph
- Type (Narrower):
- Photographs
- Type (Broader):
- Image
- Subject:
- Ethnographic heritage
- Geographic region:
- Aden
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100023400730.0x00000a_ar
81055/vdc_100023400730.0x00000a_en
T.11308/6
T.11308/6