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Image Not Available for Burial chamber of a Muslim religious order. The coffins of two sheiks. On the coffins are the turbans from whose form and colour the status of the Sheik is eveident. Around each coffin is the dead person's "everlasting lamp".
Burial chamber of a Muslim religious order. The coffins of two sheiks. On the coffins are the turbans from whose form and colour the status of the Sheik is eveident. Around each coffin is the dead person's "everlasting lamp".
Image Not Available for Burial chamber of a Muslim religious order. The coffins of two sheiks. On the coffins are the turbans from whose form and colour the status of the Sheik is eveident. Around each coffin is the dead person's "everlasting lamp".

Burial chamber of a Muslim religious order. The coffins of two sheiks. On the coffins are the turbans from whose form and colour the status of the Sheik is eveident. Around each coffin is the dead person's "everlasting lamp".

Creator Presse-Photo
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 17.3 x 24.3 cm (6 13/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Object number2002/1159
LocationNot currently on display

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