EditorialTow men in kimonos, Edo period, 1800-1825. They wear traditional dress and zori sandals. They have formal hairstyles with shaved areas. The painting comes from a group of 17 works in an unusual Western-influenced style and were probably intended for ex...
Editorial[Portrait of a] Burmese man and wife. Photograph of a Burmese man and woman in Burma (Myanmar) in the 1880s. In this posed studio portrait, they wear traditional Burmese dress, including the wrap-around skirt known as hta-mein worn by women and a more ...
EditorialWoman's Mantle (lliclla), 17th?18th century, Peru, Peruvian, Camelid hair, H. 35 1/2 x W. 43 3/8 in. (90.2 x 110.2 cm), Textiles-Woven, Indigenous women in the Andes have continued to wear their traditional mantles, fastened by silver shawl pins, even ...
Editorial???????? ? ????, ?Ceremonial Attire? from the series An Array of Auspicious Customs of Eastern Japan (Azuma fuzoku, fukuzukushi: Tairei fuku), Meiji period (1868?1912), ca. 1889, Japan, Triptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paper, O...
EditorialAlsatian peasant woman in festival costume, Kochersberg, 19th century. Her bonnet and bodice are embroidered with silver thread. The black cravat is traditional to the town. The red petticoat was worn on festival days. She carries a large straw hat to ...
EditorialTow men in kimonos, Edo period, 1800-1825. They wear traditional dress and zori sandals. They have formal hairstyles with shaved areas. The painting comes from a group of 17 works in an unusual Western-influenced style and were probably intended for ex...
EditorialTraditional Boots-made of leather and cloth. The pair on the left (red cloth) belongs to a religious person; the pair on the right is for a person of high governemental rank. The colours indicate the status. Only the king may wear boots ornamented in y...