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Swahili Man in Flamboyant Cotton Robe

Gomes & Co.1900

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Washington, DC, United States

Swahili Man in Flamboyant Cotton Robe

Gomes & Co.
Albumen print
Zanzibar, c. 1900

Seated Swahili male in a flamboyant cotton robe and wearing an extravagantly coiled turban at a jaunty angle. After 1897, newly freed people, many of whom had come from the east and central African mainland, immediately embraced new fashions that reflected their shifted status.

Details

  • Title: Swahili Man in Flamboyant Cotton Robe
  • Creator: Gomes & Co.
  • Date Created: 1900
  • Location: Zanzibar, Tanzania
  • Subject Keywords: African Colonial Photographs
  • Type: Photograph, Portrait
  • Publisher: Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston
  • External Link: Original Record
  • Medium: Albumen print

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