Cultural Gatherings in Historical Contexts

Diverse crowds including tribesmen and mourners, depicting traditional customs and ceremonies in various cultural settings across Asia.

The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location. This card date from the conclusion of the third Anglo-Afghan war of 1919. A Mad Mullah with his followers/supporters on the North West Frontier. Date: circa 1920

Assembly of many native men in Lucknow (today Lakhnau)

Description: Tribesmen greeting visiting Mission - Mubi. Location: Mubi africa

A large mourning party for a deceased chief is gathered in the street. People wearing traditional robes cluster around as two women smeared in white clay (possibly priestesses) are carried through the crowd on the shoulders of men. Original manuscript caption: Funeral Custom. Death of a Chief. Accra.

Holy Fire crowds. 1936, Jerusalem, Middle East, Israel

Damascus Esh-Sham, An oriental bazaar 1900, Syria, Damascus

Negus Iyasu V, heir to the throne of Ethiopia, accompanied by his guardian, Ras Tessamah, Addis Ababa, photo by G Remond, from L'Illustration, No 3488, January 1, 1910.

Africa. Maour-Ugongu swears to swallow Namionju and his land. Drawing by Emile Bayard. Engraving by Charles Barbant. Africa inexplorada, el Continente Misterioso by Henry Morton Stanley, c. 1887.

Mahatma Gandhi and others passing a row of cows, 1940, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location. This card date from the conclusion of the third Anglo-Afghan war of 1919. A Mad Mullah with his followers/supporters on the North West Frontier. Date: circa 1920

Photograph shows the celebration of the marriage in the Regents family of Sumedang. Dutch East Indies, known as modern Indonesia. Dated c1935.

A group of men lower the body of a dead man on to a pyre of logs prior to a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.

Description: Verre, Yola Location: Yola africa

Procession near College to drive out evil spirits and bestow blessings and protection. Procession near College to drive out evil spirits and bestow blessings and protection

Historia de Africa. Siglo XIX. Una"palaver" (conferencia). Grabado. El Congo y la Creación del Estado Independiente de este nombre. Historia de los Trabajos y Exploraciones Verificados, por Enrique M. Stanley. Editada en Barcelona, hacia 1890. España.

Deen Dayal uses the arrangement of people and the architecture to point to the most important person in the photograph. Here, the Maharaja of Rewa is placed front and center. Sardars, inscribed on the top pictures mount, refers to the military officials surrounding him. After 1858, British influence dictated that Indian rulers be educated in European history and ideas as well as their local culture and history. In the bottom image, the young maharaja is shown with Indian teachers, but the instructional tools are Western: bound books and a raised relief globe (with Asia visible). Maharaja of Rewa and Classmates, 1886. Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844-1905). Albumen print; image: 19.8 x 27.1 cm (7 13/16 x 10 11/16 in.); paper: 19.8 x 27.1 cm (7 13/16 x 10 11/16 in.).

Mahatma Gandhi during the opening ceremony of Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital at Allahabad, 28th February 1941, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Group to fix Crocodile, Tandjong Poera, Langkat Sumatra.

08/16/1906. Tangier events. Entry of the new Governor "bel Gazix". -Photo: notary.

Abha Gandhi, standing next to Mahatma Gandhi, fondling a young calf at Sevagram Ashram, 1941, Balwant Singh NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Description: Return of Chief Mkwawa's skull to Tangangika and other photographs from the mid 1950s. africa

The delightful and oppulent throne of the Sultan of Foumban, Cameroon circa 1920s

Sudan - A delegation from Darfur, a region in western Sudan. An independent sultanate for several hundred years, it was incorporated into Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1916. Date: circa 1910s

The Ten Commandments (1923)The story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. Director: Cecil B. DeMille. starring: Theodore Roberts, Charles De Roche, Estelle Taylor

Muslim pilgrims praying and performing sacrifices before leaving for Mecca, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIV, No 13, March 31, 1907.

A group of Plague staff, Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897.

Persian pilgrim, Baghdad, Iraq, 1917-1919. Artist: Unknown

Indian chiefs welcome immigrants, Anonymous, c. 1932.

The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: Indian patients receiving their allocation of blankets and cooking equipment. Photograph, ca. 1910.

King Daubi Chwa, the Kabaka of Buganda with his consort, Queen Irene and his ministers at Mengo.During the Duke and Duchess of York's visit to Uganda, King Daubi Chwa was invested by the Duke with the K.C.M.G.. Date: 1925

Touraregs et chérifs a Rhergo, 1898. Issued in Paris by publisher Plon. The work focuses on Africans, Muslims, and Tuaregs in Niger

Arab Africa - Sudanese Arabs At Kordofan, Sudan with very deadly-looking spears! Date: circa 1910s

THE BIRTH OF A NATION movie still shows Klansmen menacing an African American freedman, Gus. Played by white actor Walter Long, Gus menaces a white woman, Flora Cameron, who dies as she tries to escape. Gus's lynching is depicted as just punishment in the 1915 film by D. W. Griffith (BSLOC_2017_20_70)

Men and children in the Great Mosque (Masjid-e-Jameh), Nain, Iran, ca 1925.

Sir Herbert Samuel's second visit to Transjordan, etc. Sir H. Samuel, Emir Abdullah and Sir Wyndham Deedes. 1921, Jordan

Saxon national dress in Jàd.

Down the Jordan Valley from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. Queen of Ethiopia at Jordan Monastery. Prelates & notables at dedication. 1920

Moslem pilgrims from Aceh 1900. Aceh is a region of Indonesia. The province is located at the northern end of Sumatra. Its capital is Banda Aceh.

Mahatma Gandhi decorating Congress volunteers for their services, Karnataka, India, Asia, December 1924 India Copyright: xJayanxMitra/DinodiaxPhotox -

Philippine Islands-A simple ceremony is held within the compound of Santo Tomas as our honored dead are laid to rest. A group of liberated internees witness the ceremony conducted by the Rev. is former prison camp garden. Inmates planted

Seoul is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of more than 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the developed world. The Seoul Capital Area, which includes the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province, is the world's second largest metropolitan area with over 25.6 million people, home to over half of South Koreans along with 632,000 international residents. During the Korean War, Seoul changed hands between the Chinese-backed North Korean forces and the UN-backed South Korean forces several times, leaving the city heavily damaged after the war. One estimate of the extensive damage states that after the war, at least 191,000 buildings, 55,000 houses, and 1,000 factories lay in ruins. In addition, a flood of refugees had entered Seoul during the war, swelling the population of Seoul and its metropolitan area to an estimated 2.5 million, more than half of them homeless.

Narusha types. 1936, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Germans and G.I.s Dressed as Indians. 1956-01-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

THE KAL? STATE, UPPER BURMA

Pilger aus Korintji (Sumátra); der hinter ihnen sitzende Schêch stammt auch aus Korintji.. Hurgronje, C. Snouck (Christiaan Snouck), 1857-1936. Photographs. 1888 - 1889. Rare Book Division. Mecca (Saudi Arabia) , Social life and customs, Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Pilgrims, Indonesians, Sumatra (Indonesia)

Laos - Group of Bonzillons (Trainee Boy Buddhist monks) at Luang Prabang. Date: circa 1908

A native court in session - Dakar, Senegal. A fine example of a judges 'bench' ! Date: circa 1904

THE RESTORATION OF CETAWAYO: CHIEF DUNN'S MEN: PART OF THE ZULU DEPUTATION OF 1,600 WHO CAME IN TO ASK FOR THE RETURN OF THE KING, 1883

Pan-Islamic conference. Gathers at Shunet Nimrin, Transjordan. In session. Center of group, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, King Ali and Emir Abdullah. 1931, Jordan, Shunat Nimrin

People in Khadi dress first day of Salt Satyagraha, Gujarat, India, Asia, March 12, 1930 India Copyright: xJayanxMitra/DinodiaxPhotox -

Z.v.h. Den Soesoehoenan, Goesti Kangdjeng Ratoe Hemas and his follow -up to the grave of Njahi Ageng Malopo in Rembang, 1933 photograph Group photo of the Soesoehoenan with his wife Goesti Kangdjeng Ratoe Hemas and consequence when visiting the grave of Njai Ageng Malopa in Rembang. Photo in the photo album with 14 photos in memory of the visit of the Soesoehoenan Pakoe Boewono X from Surakarta Hadiningrat, to Cepu (Tjepoe) and surroundings on June 14, 1933. Rembang photographic support Surakarta. Cepu. Rembang

07/31/1909. The campaign mass of the 27th. The altar Erected in the camp to celebrate the mass in suffrage of those who gave their lives for the country in the combat of July 27.

Epiphany, Jordan River. 1898

Mahatma Gandhi Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and others, Pakistan, October 1938 Copyright: xJayanxMitra/DinodiaxPhotox

Description: Followers of the Jamestown Manche - Thursday, May 13th. Location: Jamestown Date: 13 May africa

Marco Polo and other saint statues. Marco Polo and other saint statues

In the shrine of Ezekiel's Tomb, Kifel. 1932, Iraq, al-Kifl, Al-Kifl

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, touring India during the partition riots following Independence 1947. Gandhi (2 October 1869 30 January 1948), was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian mystic and political leader, with some of his followers. 1930

Mahatma Gandhi and others walking Sevagram Ashram, 1938, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Four photos with portraits of pilgrims from the Dutch East Indies, Jeddah; Bilder-Atlas Zu Mecca, The Hague 1888..

Villena (Alicante), 09/05/1960. Moors and Christians Festivals. Troupes of Berber Moors parading.

wales, cathedral, prince, lagos, foundation, africa

'Le Loyalisme Musulman; A bondoukou: Les versements d'or, a Bondoukou, sous la veranda des bureaux du cercle', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916".

Festive dressed Indian men with gamelan in Ambon, Indonesia, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1920.

The Esala Perahera or 'Festival of the Tooth' held annually in Kandy is believed to be a fusion of two separate but interconnected 'Perahera' (Processions), The Esala and Dalada. The Esala Perahera which is thought to date back to the 3rd century BC, was a ritual enacted to request the gods for rainfall. The Dalada Perahera is believed to have begun when the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha was brought to Sri Lanka from India during the 4th Century AD.

Skiopticone image with motifs from Africa. African villagers in front of hut.

old vintage photo of Parsi School mumbai maharashtra India Copyright: xAjayxGoyal/DinodiaxPhotox

A Group of Religious Men in Religious Garb holding up a Piece of Calligraphy, One of 274 Vintage Photographs , late 19th-early 20th century. Gelatin silver printing out paper, 6 7/16 x 9 7/16 in. (16.4 x 23.9 cm). Arts of the Islamic World late 19th-early 20th century

A Consultation of Refugees at the British Legation Demanding Constution I, One of 274 Vintage Photographs , late 19th-early 20th century. Albumen silver photograph, 6 5/16 x 8 3/16 in. (16.0 x 20.8 cm). Arts of the Islamic World late 19th-early 20th century

Vintage Photograph. Worshippers carrying offerings to Temple - Island of Bali - Netherlands Indies - Indonesia

Pagans Perform For The Queen -- Near-Naked Pagans, their bodies gleaming with oil, provide the rhythm for their witch doctor who does a Frenzied dance for the queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Durbar at Kaduna in Northern ia, February 2. February 16, 1955. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).;Pagans Perform For The Queen -- Near-Naked Pagans, their bodies gleaming with oil, provide the rhythm for their witch doctor who does a Frenzied dance for the queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the

Saigon. Théâtre Annamite (scène de la Cadouille).. Imprimeries Réunies de Nancy. Postcards. 1906. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Vietnamese, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Theater,Vietnam, Theatrical productions, Judicial proceedings, Punishment & torture, Actors, Open-air theatrical productions, Beating

India: four convicted robbers with leg-irons on their feet and labels suspended around their necks. Photograph, 18--.

Mehmans 1870s Francis Frith British. Mehmans 260353

03/05/1908. Tokyo. Burial of the mother of the Empress of Japan. The funeral litter in Shoulders of the Priests.

Bedouin life in Trans-Jordan, An array of coffee pots around the fire. 1920, Jordan

Ivory dealers posing with tusks of elephants in Zanzibar. .

Africa, Senegal, Bedik village in Andiel

Brice, Minister of France in Abyssinia, meeting Nagadi Ras Wolde Gorgis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, photo from L'Illustration, No 3397, April 4, 1908.

U.S. Senators and their wives, Jerusalem, 1936, R. Copeland, W. Austin, D. Hastings Dome of the Rock 1936, Israel

Neby Mousa 1937 at shrine and Jerusalem 1937, Israel

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 ñ 1948), the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

Baksa, Formosa Taiwan. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

Description: Nyanza Province. African Welfare on a Kenya gold mine. Most of the gold mining activity in Kenya lies in the Nyansa Province. Location: Nyanza Province, Kenya africa

Reading the Koran in Biskra, Algeria, photograph by Bougault from L'Illustration, No 3336, February 2, 1907.

Court case at the assistant resident. A lawsuit under the board of the assistant resident. An Islamic court takes the suspects the oath to the Quran. Part of the photo album offered to J.M. Pijnacker Hardijk at his departure from Jogyakarta in 1886.

W Tetmajer (1861-1923), procession; Czernecki, Jan (Wieliczka, Kraków; Publisher; 1905-1939); 1908 (1908-00-00-1908-00-00);

At a meeting of Negro Farm Security Administration borrowers in a church near Woodville, Georgia, Greene County, May 1941. A group of mostly African American men sitting in pews at a meeting of Farm Security Administration borrowers at a church near Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941.. 1941. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Georgia, African American men, Meetings, Church buildings, Greene County (Ga.), Government lending

Emperor Duy Tan (Nguyen Phuc Vinh San, 14 August 1899 - 25 December 1945), was a child Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty and reigned for nine years between 1907 and 1916. His name was Prince Nguyen Phuc Vinh San and was son of the Thanh Thai Emperor. Because of his opposition to French rule and his erratic, depraved actions (which some speculate were feigned to shield his opposition from the French) Thanh Thai was declared insane and exiled to Vung Tau in 1907. The French decided to pass the throne to his son Nguyen Phuc Vinh San, who was only seven years old, because they thought someone so young would be easily influenced and controlled, and could be raised to be pro-French. This proved to be a big mistake on the part of the French. Nguyen Phuc Vinh San was enthroned with the reign name of Duy Tan, meaning 'friend of reform' and in time would prove unwilling to live up to this name. As he became older he noticed that, even though he was treated as the Emperor, it was the colonial authori

07/31/1918. Trip of the bishop of Fessea to Melilla. The Rev. P. Cervera (Francisco Maria Cervera (X) with the Kabyle Chiefs who came to greet him, during his visit to the Mines of Uixan.

Angkor, Cambodia, Indochina of Bonzes on pilgrimage , Léon Busy in Indochina (French - Angkor , Cambodge , Indochine Des bonzes en pèlerinage). Buddhism, religious habit, costume, temple, pilgrimage, Hinduism, religious practice, water piece, shadow , umbrella , parasol, sculpture, lake , pond, group portrait, moor, bas-relief, religious architecture, man, Religion, clothing, art, human beings, habitat , architecture, Cambodia, Angkor Wat, Bonzes in pilgrimage

A hamam or Turkish bath with a masseur. North African circa 1900

Bombay. Street scene with saintsBombay. Street scene with sacred cows

A small boutique selling Moroccan goods in Tunisia! Date: 1910s

The word Nautch is an anglicized version of nac, a word found in Hindi and Urdu and several other languages of North India, derived from the Sanskrit, Nritya, via the Prakrit, Nachcha. A simple and literal translation of Nautch is 'dance' or 'dancing'. The culture of the performing art of Nautch rose to prominence during the later period of Mughal Empire, and the East India Company Rule. Over a period of time, the Nautch traveled outside the confines of the Imperial courts of the Mughals, the palaces of the Nawabs and the Princely states, and the higher echelons of the officials of the British Raj, to the places of smaller Zamindars, and other places. Some references use the terms Nautch and Nautch girls to describe Devadasis who used to perform Hindu ritual and religious dances in the Hindu temples of India. However, there is not much commonality between the Devadasis and the Nautch girls. The former performed dances in the precincts of the Hindu temples to please the temple deities,

View of the tomb of Sittana Mèjmunah and the Pilgrimskamp, Mecca (PL.8); C. Snouck Hurgronje, Bilder Aus Mecca, Leiden 1889..

Catholic wedding ceremony in Dahomey, Benin, drawing by Louis Remy Sabattier after a photo by Chautard, from L'Illustration, No 3263, September 9, 1905.

Large Group outside Church, Savage Island, Niue, by Henry Winkelmann.

Druze - 1000 year old religion - also called Druse, Duruz, Duroz and the Tawhid Faith. 750,000 to 800,000 adherants today in Syria, Lebanon and Israel. They believe Mohammed was from God, but cannot be considered Muslims, any more than they can be Jews or Christians. Date: circa 1910

Zanzibar (from Arabic: Zanjibar, from Persian: Zangibar'Coast of Blacks'; zangi [black-skinned + bar [coast) is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania in East Africa. It is composed of the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25-50 kilometres (16-31 mi) off the coast of the mainland, and consists of numerous small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar), and Pemba. The capital of Zanzibar, located on the island of Unguja, is Zanzibar City. Its historic centre, known as Stone Town, is a World Heritage Site and is claimed to be the only functioning ancient town in East Africa. Zanzibar's main industries are spices, raffia, and tourism. In particular, the islands produce cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, and black pepper. For this reason, the islands, together with Tanzania's Mafia Island, are sometimes called the Spice Islands (a term also associated with the Maluku Islands in Indonesia).

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