. Travels and politics in the Near East. MUSSULMAN WOMAN OF MOSTAR. women, whose liuge blue cloaks cover the head with aprojection in front like a vast poke-bonnet. Amongthe Mussulmans of Bosnia and the Hercegovina poly-gamy never obtained to the same extent as in the rest ofthe Ottoman Empire, and one wife is considered a fairallowance for even a Bosnian beg. For example, in the 135 Travels and Politico district of Visegrad, a very large one, there are only threeMussulmans who have more than one wife. On high-days and holidays you may see a crowd of Christianwomen from the surrounding village
. Travels and politics in the Near East. MUSSULMAN WOMAN OF MOSTAR. women, whose liuge blue cloaks cover the head with aprojection in front like a vast poke-bonnet. Amongthe Mussulmans of Bosnia and the Hercegovina poly-gamy never obtained to the same extent as in the rest ofthe Ottoman Empire, and one wife is considered a fairallowance for even a Bosnian beg. For example, in the 135 Travels and Politico district of Visegrad, a very large one, there are only threeMussulmans who have more than one wife. On high-days and holidays you may see a crowd of Christianwomen from the surrounding villages, clad in whiteknickerbockers, thick, woollen, parti-coloured leggings,and opauke, or even bare feet. Over the knickerbockersthey wear a long white garment of coarse striped cotton,. I lll^lsriAX \\(1\1IX AT MciSTAlv.(From a Photo, by Miss CImdjvick.) and over that again a Zouave embroidered in walking or working they usually tuck up the longgarment into their girdles. Their headdress consists of aflat fez, covered in front with coins—a decoration calledin the vernacular sirif. Over the fez there is an embroi-dered muslin or net veil, and round their necks more coinsand glass amulets. Others, again, vary the headdress byweariiig a fez entirely covered by black silk fringe. The 136 in the Near East weekday attire is made of darker materials. Mostar,which is not more than about five centuries old, andwas of no importance till the Turkish times, has grownconsiderably since the Occupation. At the last census itnumbered 17,010 inhabitants, about half of whom wereMohammedans, and it is one of the strongest Mussulmantowns in the country. A friend of mine who visited itbefore the Occupation tells me that it was one of thedirtiest towns in Turkey, and had no
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