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BRIDE'S CAVALCADE IN AN EGYPTIAN WEDDING PROCESSION |
ENIGMATIC AS HER NATIVE EGYPT |
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| A string of camels having taken the bride's furniture to her future husband's house, the bride goes in procession to the bath, under a silken canopy and enveloped in a cashmere shawl, being, with similar ceremony, escorted to her future home; the bridegroom has no opportunity of seeing her until the wedding day, the marriage having been arranged by a third party | To her native charms are added the attractions of artistic dress and ornament; an embroidered tákeeyeh, or head shawl, worn over a close-fitting bejewelled turban, necklace of coins, ear-rings, and many strings of beads manifold in form and colour |