Costume of a Dervise or Dervish man of Syria

Costume of a Dervise or Dervish man of Syria. He wears robes of aba or felt, a scimitar on his girdle and has his hair in a tuft on his head to be tied by a cord to the ceiling. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Octavian Dalvimart from William Alexander's translation of Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Thomas M'Lean, London, 1814

Cord Dervish Felt Georgian Era Girdle Octavian Dalvimart Ottoman Empire Regency Era Scimitar Thomas Mlean Tuft William Alexander

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