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Water Bearer Orientalist Influence

Banks of the Nile, Egypt
1851 E185110

Costume
   Drape garmet covering the front and back of the body and leaving the side bare.

   ML.

Actions
   This woman walks away from the Nile river with a jug of water on her head. She wears a garment which is open from the shoulder to the ankle, where it is fastened. The garment is open at the side permitting a full side view of the figure in motion (1).

Commentary
   Even today people in some parts of the world walk around, for all practical purposes, naked. For more on the Orientalist view of the world, see The Classical Bath in the Bikini Science Times.

Source
   Picture credited to an "Oriental Album" published by James Augustus St. John in England. Scanned from Bernard Rudosky, Are Clothes Modern?, Paul Thobald, Chicago, 1947, p. 214. 1 picture.
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