Two Sitting Women, Esaias Boursss, 1662 There are two women outside on the street or near home. Linkst squats a lean woman on a stone curb. A wrap skirt (Redda) is hanging around her knees. She wears a wide loose -hanging shoulder cloth around her upper body. Below we see her bare shoulder, neck and bent left arm. The woman wears a cloth on her head, from behind a bun sticking hair (Condé). On the right a woman sits on an elongated block of stone, with bent knees. Her only garment is a foot -long wrapping skirt (Redda). Her upper body with full breasts is uncovered. Perhaps it is a nurse (min
Two Sitting Women, Esaias Boursss, 1662 There are two women outside on the street or near home. Linkst squats a lean woman on a stone curb. A wrap skirt (Redda) is hanging around her knees. She wears a wide loose -hanging shoulder cloth around her upper body. Below we see her bare shoulder, neck and bent left arm. The woman wears a cloth on her head, from behind a bun sticking hair (Condé). On the right a woman sits on an elongated block of stone, with bent knees. Her only garment is a foot -long wrapping skirt (Redda). Her upper body with full breasts is uncovered. Perhaps it is a nurse (min). The origin of both women is unclear: possibly Eurasian, Singalese of Lage Kaste, or Tamil from Jaffna. Page 113 from a sketchbook with 117 sheets. Sri Lanka paper. ink brush Asiatic races and peoples (with NAME). Eurasion, half-caste. Asian races and peoples (with NAME). skirt (with NAME). styles of hairdress (with NAME) - ~women. working class, labourers - AA - women. wet-nurse Colombo. Sri Lanka
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