Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian costumes and decorations (1920)
Houston, Mary G. (Mary Galway), b. 1871, Hornblower, Florence S · London : A. & C. Black, limited · leaf 80
will remain in position without the waist cord beingtied over it, but it is more secure when it has beenthus confined. Fig. 38 is still another variety of thistype of draping, and is taken from a small statueof Assur-nasir-pal in the British Museum ; there wehave two shawls, one square and one… … Fig. 35 65 ANCIENT ASSYRIAN COSTUME f deeply into it at left side of waist cord; then drawtightly round the figure in front and round again acrossthe back of waist till the left side is reached again.Now double about 6 inches of the shawl inwards, andtuck again into waist cord. Take the…
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