An Algerian woman with a tattoo or henna design on her face, carrying a clay water pot against a studio backdrop.

Date:
[approximately 1900]
Reference:
538968i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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An Algerian woman with a tattoo or henna design on her face, carrying a clay water pot against a studio backdrop. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced June 2022: An Arab woman, with a tattoo or henna design on her face, carrying a clay water pot, against a studio backdrop. Photograph, ca.1900.

Publication/Creation

[approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : black and white photoprint

Lettering

Femme Kabyle Bears number: 1623

Notes

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Reference

Wellcome Collection 538968i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.

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