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Maker(s):Underwood & Underwood
Culture:American (active 1880s - 1940s)
Title:(7) - 2524 - The prayer-niche (S.E. toward Mecca), tomb-mosque of Kait Bey, Cairo, Egypt
Date Made:n.d.
Type:Photograph
Materials:stereograph
Place Made:Egypt
Measurements:card: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
Narrative Inscription:  inscribed on mount: Underwood & Underwood, Publishers / New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa - Kansas 7 Works and Sun Sculpture UU Trade Mark Studios / Arlington, NY Westwood, NJ (7) - 2524 - The prayer-niche (S.E. toward Mecca), tomb-mosque of Kait Bey, Cairo, Egypt Copyright Underwood and Underwood
Accession Number:  SC 2011.26.151
Credit Line:Bequest of Henry Latimer Seaver
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
elaborate interior with three men, two sitting and one kneeling forward, all in robes and turbans praying as another man sits on top step of an elaborate covered staircase

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