Algeria Hand Loom Weavers
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- EEPA AE-04-02
- General
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Title source: Postcard caption.
- Creator
- Raphael Tuck & Sons
- Place
- Africa
- Algeria
- Occupation
- Artists
- Creator
- Raphael Tuck & Sons
- See more items in
- African Postcard Collection
- African Postcard Collection / Series 2: Algeria (AE)
- Extent
- 1 Postcard (collotype., col., 9 x 14 cm)
- Date
- [ca. 1905]
- Container
- Volume 1
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA AE 1995-0004-02
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- Postcards
- Collection Citation
- African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Postcards
- Scope and Contents
- Picture postcard printed by Tuck's Post Card.
- Printed text on recto reads: "Algeria Hand-Loom Weavers."
- Caption on verso reads: "Hand-Loom Weavers. The picture shows the primitive method pursued by the Arab women for the weaving of cloth. This is not done by means of a loom or even a shuttle, but the warp is strung on beams, and the weft is passed through, patiently and slowly, from one woman to another, till sufficient coarse cloth is woven to form a length for a burnouse''.
- Additional printed text on verso reads: "Raphael Tuck& Sons ''OILETTE'' Regd. Postcard 7534. Art publishers to Their Majesties The King and Queen. Printed in England."
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536871081657-1536871087320-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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