Photograph of a woman surrounded by a crowd of children carrying the items of a bridal Trousseau on the way to the bridgeroom's house as part of Tunisian wedding traditions. The photograph was taken by Nadia Abu-Zahra during Ramadan in Sidi Ameur, the Sahel, Tunisia.
Photograph of a group of men and children playing music to accompany the bridal trousseau as part of Tunisian wedding traditions. The photograph was taken by Nadia Abu-Zahra during Ramadan in Sidi Ameur, the Sahel, Tunisia.
Photograph of a new coffee shop in the Zawiya (an Islamic religious school or monastery), depicting typical Tunisian architecture. The photograph was taken by Nadia Abu-Zahra during in Sidi Ameur, the Sahel, Tunisia.
Photograph of the ceremonial exhibition of the trousseau of the bride as part of Tunisian wedding traditions. The photograph was taken in Sidi Ameur, Sahel, Tunisia by Nadia Abu-Zahra.
Photograph of a group as part of a ceremonial formal invitation for a male circumcision ceremony. The phogoraph was taken in the Zawiya section of Sidi Ameur, Sahel, Tunisia by Nadia Abu-Zahra.
Fonds consists of photographic negatives of people in the South Pacific, probably Hawaii or Samoa, in their traditional dress. A Polynesian tapa from the same time period and region was donated to the museum's collections.
Photograph depicts a group of dancers dancing in grass skirts among palm trees somewhere in the South Pacific (likely Hawaii or Samoa). The negative is over-exposed.
Photograph depicts a group of dancers in grass skirts dancing amid palm trees and in front of a grass hut somewhere in the South Pacific (likely Hawaii or Samoa). The dancers are flanked by two seated individuals on either side. The negative is slightly overexposed.
The scanned images contained on the two discs in this fonds represent a selection of Robert Reford’s amateur photographs found in two albums from his time in British Columbia (1889-1891) and in the Arctic (ca. 191?). The images are presented in the order that existed in the original albums.
File contains images from Robert Reford's Arctic album. Some of the photographs include a date as it appeared in the original description. The rest do not include a date and were thought to had been taken during the same time period. The photographs seem to have been taken after Reford became president of his father's company in 1906.
Item is an image of a village along the coast. According to annotations, the photograph is of the Hudson Bay Company post in Rigolet, Newfoundland and Labrador
