A.V. Seletsky
1866
Young girl Dynya Davidovna Shapiro [European Jew, Mogilev Guberniya]

Salt paper print
Russian Museum of Ethnography
Number: ??? 8764-21533
 
Curatorial description (Accessed: 5 August 2021)
The photograph was received from P. P. Muromtsev, Fellow, Society of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography.
 
The young girl is wearing a skirt and a jacket, and leather shoes on her feet.
 
Girls and maidens did not cover their hair. Usually, they grew long hair and plaited it. Also, women and girls wore skirts (or dresses) covering their knees completely, and chemises and jackets covering their chest and elbows, at any time of the year.
 
The photograph was displayed at the Russian Ethnographic Exhibition of 1867 in Moscow.
 
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