#vintage asia

[jaffababe]

Assortment of photos from Rafah, Gaza City, Al Quds (Jerusalem), Bir Shebba (Beersheba), and Al Khalil (Hebron). These were taken on a film camera by my mother in the 1990s.

[old-movie-stars]

Sophia Loren, Queen of Italian Cinema

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

Ainu, Indigenous people of Japan

The Ainu are an ethnic group of related indigenous peoples native to northern Japan, including Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; they have occupied these areas known to them as "Ainu Mosir" (Ainu: アイヌモシㇼ, lit. 'the land of the Ainu'), since before the arrival of the modern Japanese and Russians. These regions are often referred to as Ezo (蝦夷) in historical Japanese texts. X

[yourgothgirldowntown]

[kafkasapartment]

Untitled, 1930s-1940s. LUO Bonian. Gelatin silver.

[arkipelagic]

“Looking afar from the Philippine shore missing their loved one.” Photographed by C.H. Graves, 1902. Text by John Tewell.

[pink-insanity]

[holidaysincambodia]

A Kurdish Jewish woman in 1976

[jupiterovprsten]

Wat Ratchathammaram Red Temple, Koh Samui

[gemsofgreece]

Greek embroidered scarf from Nigde of Cappadocia (Turkey).

Photo: Studio Kominis

Source: lykeionellinidon

[s0r3muzzi3wh0r3]

I love, love, love, love, LOVE Chughtai's art. Always been fixated w it.

[jaffababe]

Palestinian hair ornaments

Palestinian silver ornaments worn over the shoulders or hanging down the back and mixed with the hair, sometimes worn with nazars. Called "quarmal" or "karameel." Examples of it being worn below on children and Palestinian women. 19th to 20th century.

[safije]

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Province, China 1937

[vintageceleb]

Asia Argento

[kafkasapartment]

Composition, 1930s-1940s. LUO Bonian. Gelatin silver.

[arkipelagic]

Aeta girls from Luzon, Philippines. German East Asia Expedition 1937–1939. Photographed by Egon von Eickstedt, shared by John Tewell. From the Deutsche Fotothek in Dresden, Germany.