North Africa Maghreb: 2 Native Berbers Hookah Traditional Costume (Vintage Gelatin Silver Print ~1900s/1910s)

original antique gelatin silver print photograph, unmounted, depicting two seated figures in traditional maghreb dress in a staged studio setting, with a decorative hookah (water pipe) positioned between them. one figure is draped in a hooded haik style wrap, the other wears a turban and holds the pipe's mouthpiece.

the backdrop appears to be a painted or arranged studio setting typical of orientalist studio photography produced in north africa for the european market in this period.

no photographer's mark, studio name, or location is present on either the front or reverse of the print, so the exact country of origin (likely algeria, tunisia, or morocco) cannot be confirmed with certainty.

sitters are unidentified.

stylistically this dates to roughly the 1880s-1910s, the height of this genre of studio photography.

a piece of interest to collectors of orientalist photography, north african and maghreb ethnographic images, or early colonial era studio work. 

size: ~ 9.4 x 14.4 cm (1 cm ~ 0.39 inch)

condition: good to very good..paper residue on borders...please also refer to scans which show complete front and reverse of photo

photography, fotografie, ethnic, orientalist, waterpipe, pipa, hookah, turban, headdress