co-uniform

Zhanyinbao, an Imperial bodyguard, wearing a sheathed dao. Notice the lanyard through the handle. (1760)

A halal meat store sign in Hankou, ca. 1934–1935.

Arab Ladies, Zanzibar

Bedouin woman

Celebration at a Syriac Orthodox monastery in Mosul, Ottoman Syria, early 20th century.

Bedouin woman (1898 - 1914)

Syrian bedouin, 1893

A bladesmith from Damascus, ca. 1900

Kashkul, or Beggar’s Bowl, with Portrait of Dervishes and a Mounted Falconer, A.H. 1280.

A Family of Dervishes, possibly by Antoin Sevruguin (between 1876 and 1925)

A Palestinian Dervish in 1913.

Letter sent by the high-priest Lu'enna to the king of Lagash (maybe Urukagina), informing him of his son's death in combat, c. 2400 BC, found in Girsu.