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| Keywords: Ghilzai nomad women of Afghanistan in 1839-42.jpg Ghiljie women in the lower orders This lithograph is taken from plate 6 of 'Afghaunistan' by Lieutenant James Rattray This sketch was made on one of Rattray's journeys from Kabul to Kandahar with an Afghan escort Rattray was uncomfortably aware that his companions could easily and quietly dispose of him given the length of the journey and the remoteness of some of the places they passed through Rattray's group often came across roving bands of western Ghilzais who lived a nomadic life from season to season searching for pasture for their flocks Their black felt tents stretched over twigs resembled a flock of enormous bats skimming over the flat surface of the plain Their women drove their camels bullocks and donkeys laden sky-high with the most singular mix of goods and chattels The unmarried Ghilzai women bore a peculiar badge of virginity on their foreheads bringing the whole of their hair to the front of their face and kneading it into a compact cake with an admixture of dung and mud ornament it with beads bits of metal and coloured glass Some of them were very pretty Rattray observed but others were squint-eyed from peering around the sides of their odious distinction http //www bl uk/ The British Library - http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000000562u00006000 html Online Gallery 1848 James Rattray 1818-1854 PD-Old PD-old-70 Kuchi people in Zabul Province Women of Afghanistan in art History of Afghanistan in art Clothing of Afghanistan 1848 lithographs Depictions of natives in European works Chadors 19th-century people of Afghanistan | ||||
