4 0 c m
30cm
actual image size: 21cm x 32cm
Description
Portrait of a Roma girl sitting in front of a stone wall in the village of Al Makhwah. The girl comes from the Al Hud group in Yemen and works as a dancing and singing street performer. She is wearing bunches of herbs in her hair, a nose ornament and a thick armlet.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Image Details
Accession Number
2004.130.3401.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Saudi Arabia
Region
Al Banah Province [Minţaqat al Bāḩah]; Al Makhwah [Al Makhwāh]
Cultural Group
Roma Al Hud
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
April 4, 1946
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