'Somali Woman'. Photographer: Unknown

Name: 'Somali Woman'. Photographer: Unknown
Author: Frederick Mercer Hunter (author)

İsim	'Somali Woman'. Photographer: Unknown
Yazar	Frederick Mercer Hunter (author)
Basım Tarihi:	1873/1877
Basım Yeri	- Qatar National Library
Konu	Ethnographic heritage \| more \| less
Tür	Resim
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Fiziksel Boyutlar	1 albumen print
Kütüphane:	Ortadoğu Dijital Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	81055/vdc_100023400730.0x000007_ar \| 81055/vdc_100023400730.0x000007_en \| T.11308/9
Kayıt Numarası	81055%2Fvdc_100023400730.0x000007_dlme
Lokasyon	British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
Tarih	1873/1877
Notlar	Genre/Subject Matter:This full-length seated studio portrait of a young Somali woman is intended to demonstrate an ethnic or class ‘type’. In particular, this image is intended to illustrate the habits of dress as described previously by Frederick Mercer Hunter (p. 45). Hunter describes these as follows:‘The women wear a single garment like that of the men, but it is put on differently, being fastened round the waist like a petticoat, with a number of folds behind; one end is then brought up across the left or right shoulder, and a lappet is left, which can be brought over the head like a hood. The breeze is apt to discompose this drapery, and girls before marriage wear a piece of string round the waist to prevent the upper portion of their robe from becoming indecorous. Married women are not so particular. The petticoat portion is open in front, and very frequently the leg is exposed far above the knee.’Elsewhere, on page 62, Hunter describes the ‘ornaments’ worn by Somalis, however, those descriptions do not accurately reflect what is worn by the woman in this photograph, except inasmuch as she wears what are perhaps ‘Zanud’ armlets above the elbow. Her earrings are hooped and appear to be of metal, while her necklace(s) consists of three strands of varying sized beads, which may be amber, coral, metal or some other natural bead. The shortest necklace with the smallest beads is close about her neck, the next is made of evenly sized large beads also close about her neck, while the longest necklace is made of unevenly sized beads of various materials. All three strands may be suspended from her hooped earrings. She wears a turban-like twisted fabric about her head which conceals her hair entirely.Although less overtly erotic in character, the woman is posed with one ankle exposed and seated on a patterned carpet in a fashion similar to erotic Orientalist genre paintings.Inscriptions:In pencil, upper left corner adjacent to print: ‘9’ \| 1 albumen print \| Dimensions:89 x 61 mm [portrait]Format:1 albumen print pasted to backing paper and mounted between pp. 50-51Materials:Silver printing-out paper, albumen printCondition:The print is unevenly hand-cut, with one long crease from 1.5cm along upper edge to 5.5cm along right edge. There are a series of minor surface losses from 1.3cm to 4.3cm from lower edge along left-hand edge. A small number of dark spatter marks on the left-hand side of the image originate in printing.Foliation:‘9’Process:Albumen print \| more \| less
Parçası Olduğu	British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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'Somali Woman'. Photographer: Unknown

Yazar Frederick Mercer Hunter (author)

Basım Tarihi 1873/1877

Basım Yeri - Qatar National Library

Konu Ethnographic heritage | more | less

Tür Resim

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Fiziksel Boyutlar 1 albumen print

Kütüphane Ortadoğu Dijital Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası 81055/vdc_100023400730.0x000007_ar | 81055/vdc_100023400730.0x000007_en | T.11308/9

Kayıt Numarası 81055%2Fvdc_100023400730.0x000007_dlme

Lokasyon British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers

Tarih 1873/1877

Notlar Genre/Subject Matter:This full-length seated studio portrait of a young Somali woman is intended to demonstrate an ethnic or class ‘type’. In particular, this image is intended to illustrate the habits of dress as described previously by Frederick Mercer Hunter (p. 45). Hunter describes these as follows:‘The women wear a single garment like that of the men, but it is put on differently, being fastened round the waist like a petticoat, with a number of folds behind; one end is then brought up across the left or right shoulder, and a lappet is left, which can be brought over the head like a hood. The breeze is apt to discompose this drapery, and girls before marriage wear a piece of string round the waist to prevent the upper portion of their robe from becoming indecorous. Married women are not so particular. The petticoat portion is open in front, and very frequently the leg is exposed far above the knee.’Elsewhere, on page 62, Hunter describes the ‘ornaments’ worn by Somalis, however, those descriptions do not accurately reflect what is worn by the woman in this photograph, except inasmuch as she wears what are perhaps ‘Zanud’ armlets above the elbow. Her earrings are hooped and appear to be of metal, while her necklace(s) consists of three strands of varying sized beads, which may be amber, coral, metal or some other natural bead. The shortest necklace with the smallest beads is close about her neck, the next is made of evenly sized large beads also close about her neck, while the longest necklace is made of unevenly sized beads of various materials. All three strands may be suspended from her hooped earrings. She wears a turban-like twisted fabric about her head which conceals her hair entirely.Although less overtly erotic in character, the woman is posed with one ankle exposed and seated on a patterned carpet in a fashion similar to erotic Orientalist genre paintings.Inscriptions:In pencil, upper left corner adjacent to print: ‘9’ | 1 albumen print | Dimensions:89 x 61 mm [portrait]Format:1 albumen print pasted to backing paper and mounted between pp. 50-51Materials:Silver printing-out paper, albumen printCondition:The print is unevenly hand-cut, with one long crease from 1.5cm along upper edge to 5.5cm along right edge. There are a series of minor surface losses from 1.3cm to 4.3cm from lower edge along left-hand edge. A small number of dark spatter marks on the left-hand side of the image originate in printing.Foliation:‘9’Process:Albumen print | more | less

Parçası Olduğu British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers