Subject: غازى ġāzī desert raider
Culture: Moroccan Arab
Setting: French/Spanish/civil wars, Morocco 1844-1912
Object: costume = fez hat, burnous cape, djellaba robe, shoes
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* Musée de Marrakech
"Caftan marocain, XVIII siècle (costume d'apparat)
Tissu de Velours ancien brodé de fil d'or.
Ce costume d'apparat porté dans les villes nord du Maroc est tout brodé à la main[.]
De par sa forme et sa technique, il dénote une parenté avec la keswa et kbira, robe portée par la mariée juive.
L. : 152 cm,
1.max : 82 cm,
1. mini. :58 cm."
* Carnegie Museum of Natural History > Hall of African Wildlife
"HIGH DRAMA IN THE NORTH AFRICAN DESERT
This dramatic moment was captured by renowned French taxidermist and naturalist Jules Verraux in 1867. Gold medal winner at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, 'Arab Courier Attacked by Lions' was one of the best-known and most ambitious dioramas of its time. This piece was acquired and first exhibited in this country by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. It was also displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 and was widely acclaimed. The Carnegie purchased this exhibit in 1898 for a mere $50!
"The scene is set in North Africa in the mid 1800s and depicts a subspecies of lion now extinct. Barbary lions, once widespread throughout northern Africa, were exterminated by expanding human civilization early in the twentieth century." ...* Al Jabry
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* Denis Parkar
