cover image: Young girl in festival dress, Ethiopia, ca.1900-1930

Young girl in festival dress, Ethiopia, ca.1900-1930

"8 - MISSION D'ABYSSINIE - Petite musulmane en costume de fete." ("Small Moslem woman in a festival costume.") A young girl poses by herself wearing a large belt made of shells and beads as well as a beaded head covering with a diamond shaped ornament that hangs over her forehead. The back of the postcard is blank.
children portraits fashion
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12728
Date published
1900/1930
Dates
1900/1930
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
Place Discussed
(city) Africa Ethiopia
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Ethiopia
Reference
impa-m12728 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0062
Rights
Divinity.Library@yale.edu Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/5b3736bc5477cf8c420c540558059938

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