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- P. 34 "The second officer is the Ichic-Agasee, whom Morier calls the master of ceremonies: he superintends the porters, ushers, door-keepers, and other officers of that class belonging to the palace. Before him is borne a gold stick covered with precious stones, which is the mark of his dignity: and when the king quits his seraglio, he takes it in this hand, standing at some distance of his majesty's person, and endeavoring to anticipate his commands from his looks." P. 62-63 "This is not the only occasion on which the khilauts is conferred: it is given by the king, in token of his approbation or favor, to such of his own subjects as are deemed deserving of the honour, and to ambassadors or other foreigners who visit his court. it's quality, and the number of articles of which it is composed, differ with the rank and favor of the receiver. A common khilauts consists of a caba or coat; a kemerbund, or zone; a gouchpeesh, or shawl for the head: when it is intended to be more distinguishing, a sword or a dagger is added. To persons of distinction rich furs are given, such as a catabee or a coordee; but when the khilauts is complete..."
- Date Created:
- 1845-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- P. 159-160 "The Armenians bind their heads with silk handkerchiefs of various colours, the ends falling loose down the back; and under this sort of head-mantle they wear another kerchief of white linen, which passes behind the ears over the chin and hangs down the breast. When they go out, this piece of drapery is occasionally drawn up over the mouth, leaving nothing of the face to be seen but the eyes and the too often floridly shining."
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- 1845-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- P. 112-113 "When the Persian is going to ride, he puts on a pair of wide cloth trowsers called shalwar, into which he introduces the skirts of the erkalig and the zeer-djameh."
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- 1845-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- P. 42 "They have charge of the king's person, receive greater pay and are clothed in a more expensive manner than the regular cavalry. The flower of this corps is formed into a body of about four thousand, who are distinguished by the excessive richness of their dress and the insolence of their behavior."
- Date Created:
- 1845-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- P. 23 "...he is from the Cadjars tribe." P. 27 "His face seemed exceedingly pale, of a polished marble hue, with the finest contour of features, and eyes dark, brilliant and piercing, a beard black as jet, and of a length which fell below his chest over a large portion of the effulgent belt which held his diamond-hilted dagger. This extraordinary amplitude of beard appears to have been a badge of Persian royalty from the earliest times; for we find it attached to the heads of the sovereigns, in all the ancient sculptured remains throughout the empire." The king wears a full, long coat, a kolija (Vogelsang-Eastwood, p. 10).
- Date Created:
- 1845-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- P. 125 "The opposite plate represents a grandee smoking on horseback, and attended by a servant on foot." The servant appears to be wearing a pair of zeer-djameh over a narrower pair of shalwar (Shoberl 1845. p. 113)
- Date Created:
- 1845-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- P. 114 "The Persians shave the head twice or three times a week. Some have a lock of hair growing on the crown, after the fashion of the Turks; others retain a border above the ears." The Ambassador is wearing a full array of garments that make up the khilauts (Shoberl, p. 62-63)
- Date Created:
- 1845-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- P. 73 "The judge sits at the extremity of the apartment, in the eastern fashion: his head covered with a large turban; the lower part of his face is concealed by a very black bushy beard; while his body is wrapped in an ample robe."
- Date Created:
- 1845-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- P 124 "The Persian pipe, called kallioun or narquilly,is totally different than ours."
- Date Created:
- 1845-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection