Tuesday, 14 September 2021

Burqa-clad Afghan and Qizilbash women, Kabul, 1840 (c)





Burqa-clad Afghan and Qizilbash women, Kabul, 1840 (c). 

James Atkinson (the painter) writes: "The dress of the Kuzzilash females is, at home, similar to that of their Afghan sisters, but abroad they are distinguished by wearing a veil of black horse hair."

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