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- Notes:
- P. 272 "Mar Gabriel is a generous and noble, but still wild young man. His confinement, when he commenced learning English with us, soon proved intolerable to his restless spirit." For this portrait, Mar Gabrial wears a dark aba (Vogelsang-Eastwood, p. 11) over a bright blue caba (Shoberl 1845, p. 45) or qaba (Vogelsang-Eastwood, p. 10) trimmed in red and tied with a patterned girdle. His two toned blue and red headgear is loose, hanging slightly to one side of his head and has a tassel at the tip of the crown.
- Date Created:
- 1843-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Costume History Collection
- Notes:
- P. 188-189 "The priest at length made his appearance, with his bed and prayer-book. He is a young man about twenty years old modest, and apparently amiable and intelligent." He wears a hat, kolah namadi (Vogelsang-Eastwood p. 12) , like the governor, with a green tunic decorated with red trim covered in an orange caba (Shoberl 1845, p. 34). He cinches in the tunic with a plain belt and does not carry any weapons.
- Date Created:
- 1843-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Costume History Collection
