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A woman is thrown into her husband's funeral pyre, India.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, India, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Death of an Indian fakir on the shores of Ganges river.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fruit, Ganges river, Houses, Human types, India, Priests, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life

Muslim funeral in Istanbul.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Istanbul, Muslim cemeteries, Ottoman cemeteries, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Funerary procession of the king of Tonkin (Vietnam).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Hanoi, Human types, Kingdom of Tonkin, Kings, Officials, Processions, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Tonkin, Vietnam

Rite of passage in the Ottoman Empire.

Tags: Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Istanbul, Janissaries, Muslim cemeteries, Ottoman cemeteries, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

A Bulgarian bride.

Tags: Bulgarians, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Kalamaria, Rites of passage, Thessaloniki, Wedding ceremonies, Women

Scenes from the funerary services for the consuls in Thessaloniki (May 1876). View of Thessaloniki. From Le Monde Illustré, May 1876.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerals, Greece, History, Macedonia, Military officers, Priests, Rites of passage, Saatli Mosque (Thessaloniki), Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thessaloniki, Views, Weapons

The Muslim cemetery at Üsküdar.

Tags: Bosporus, Cemeteries, Funerary monuments, Funerary steles, Human types, Istanbul, Muslim cemeteries, Natural environment, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Turkey, Üsküdar / gr. Scutari / anc. Chrysopolis

The Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bell towers, Children, Christian priests, Church of the Dormition / Monastery of the Assumption (Hydra), Churches, Greece, Human types, Hydra, Islands, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Turkish funeral in Istanbul.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Funerals, Funerary practices, Istanbul, Ottomans, Rites of passage, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

Turkish wedding.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Houses, Istanbul, Musical instruments, Ottomans, Rites of passage, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Wedding ceremonies

Panoramic view of the Golden Horn from the cemetery of Eyüp.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cemeteries, Cemetery of Eyüp, Eyüp / byz. Kosmidion, Funerary steles, Golden Horn, Human types, Istanbul, Mosques, Muslim cemeteries, Ottoman monuments, Rites of passage, Turkey, Views

Ancient sarcophagus.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Death, Funerary monuments, Greece, Rites of passage, Sarcophagi, Women

Β. Armenian bride.

Tags: Armenians, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Wedding ceremonies, Women

Α. Greek bride.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Human types, Istanbul, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Wedding ceremonies, Women

Turkish wedding.

Tags: Animals, Children, Istanbul, Musicians, Pack animals, Professions, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Servants, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Wedding ceremonies

Muslim funeral.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerals, Funerary monuments, Human types, Istanbul, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Thrace, Turkey

Guests to circumcision ceremony.

Tags: Animals, Children, Circumcision, Istanbul, Musicians, Pack animals, Professions, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Servants, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

Muslim (Turkish) funeral.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Funerals, Human types, Istanbul, Ottomans, Rites of passage, Thrace

Turkish bride.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Ottomans, Rites of passage, Thrace, Wedding ceremonies, Women

Mourning at Greek cemetery.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cemeteries, Children, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Death, Ethnic groups, Funerary practices, Greeks, Istanbul, Priests, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Greek wedding.

Tags: Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dance, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Istanbul, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Wedding ceremonies, Women

Venetian undertaker.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Death, Ethnic groups, Human types, Italians, Italy, Professions, Rites of passage, Undertakers, Veneto, Venice

Costume of the confraternity entrusted with accompanying convicts to the gallows.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Death, Ethnic groups, Human types, Italians, Italy, Religious practices, Rites of passage, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Veneto, Venice

Venetian lady about to get married.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Italians, Italy, Rites of passage, Veneto, Venice, Wedding ceremonies, Women

Egg weighing 200 pounds exhibited at the market of Istanbul, part of the celebrations of the birth of Sultan's daughter.

Tags: Childbirth, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Festivities / Celebrations, Human types, Istanbul, Merchants / Traders, Professions, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Turks

Baptism in Chioggia.

Tags: Baptism, Chioggia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Italians, Italy, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Venetian Lagoon, Veneto, Venice, Women

Ottoman (Muslim) funeral.

Tags: Cemeteries, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerals, Istanbul, Natural environment, Ottoman monuments, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

Ottoman (Muslim) wedding.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Istanbul, Natural environment, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Wedding ceremonies

Young Armenian bride taken to church for her wedding.

Tags: Armenia, Armenians, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Istanbul, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Wedding ceremonies, Women

Armenian bridegroom on his way to his wedding, escorted by his best man, who bears the groom's sword.

Tags: Armenia, Armenians, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Istanbul, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Weapons, Wedding ceremonies

Greek bride.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Furniture, Greeks, Interiors, Istanbul, Jewellery, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Wedding ceremonies, Women

Turkish child om the day of his circumcision.

Tags: Children, Circumcision, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Jewellery, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Turks

Mourning women from Armenia. Remains of fortresses on Koesoffa mountains. Remains of fortresses. Cave on Mount Tagte Rustan.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Armenia, Armenians, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Greek wedding in Athens, by Louis Dupré.

Tags: Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Wedding ceremonies, Women

Funeral in Livadeia.

Tags: Boeotia, Central Greece, Funerals, Greece, Livadeia, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life

Ancient ruins at Thyateira (Akhisar).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Human types, Lydia, Rites of passage, Thyateira / mod. Akhisar, Turkey, Views, Women

Ottoman officials. Members of the higher clergy. Eminent politicians and other personalities of the early 18th century. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. Baptism ceremony. Circumcision ceremony.

Tags: Baptism, Basilica of Saint Peter (Rome), Circumcision, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Istanbul, Ottoman officials, Patriarchs, Priests, Rites of passage, Rome

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