#algeria

Algeria. Cheb Khaled in Belleville district, Paris - 1991.

Guy Le Querrec.

Studio portrait of an Algerian woman wearing traditional jewelry, Algiers - 1880.

صورة لمرأة ترتدي المجوهرات الجزائرية العاصمية، ١٨٨٠.

Woman from Ouled Nail tribe wearing a traditional headdress, Touggourt, Algeria - 1904.

Algerian woman from Toggourt wearing Naili headdress and jewelry, 1905.

صورة لمرأة من تڨرت بمجوهراتها النايلة، ١٩٠٥

Louis Voinot.

Studio portrait of a woman dressed in a traditional karakou made of velvet and embroidered with golden yarns. She is also wearing Seroual Mdewar which is mainly made of a silky fabric.

The attire is accessorized with a frontal diadem called خيط الروح and several hairpins رعاشات. She is wearing a well known fish-shaped necklace named خيط الحوت and another one made of pearls, Algiers - 1880/1899.

Roland Bonaparte.

Algeria.Traditional hairpin from Algiers called “ Raacha”.

Men sitting in a café, Constantine, late 19th century.

Men and little boys enjoying some dates given in honor of Brahim, a boy who got circumcised in Douar Tadjmout, 1935.

Portrait of Naili woman in traditional dress and jewelry - 1912/1914.

Lucien Tignol.

Amazigh Chaoui men and women celebrating the circumcision of a young boy, Douar Tadjmout - July, 1936.

Jacques Faublée.

Sfenj [Algerian doughnut], Zlabiya and Kalb el louz seller in the Casbah of Algiers - October, 1962.

بائع السفنج والزلابية وقلب اللوز في قصبة الجزائر العاصمة، ١٩٦٢.

Celebration of the Prophet Mawlid in Tlemcen - 1910/1920.

In the background, there’s Sidi Abdallah Ben Mansour tomb at Ain El Hout.

A stucco panel from the medieval city of Sedrata, in the Algerian Sahara - 1880/1910.

Algeria. Naili women from Touggourt in traditional dresses and jewelry, september 1904.

Louis Voinot.