1871 Wood Engraving Procession Doseh Treading Sheykh Saadeeyeh Preacher XGQB7 XEU8 and Floyd Stimson

and Floyd Stimson

the West Indies

75 inches and 3

heinrich natter

This is an original 1938 photogravure of the rock statue at Polonnaruwa

1871 Wood Engraving Procession Doseh Treading Sheykh Saadeeyeh Preacher XGQB7 XEU8 and Floyd StimsonThis is an original 1871 black and white in text wood engraving of a procession called the "Dseh" or "Treading" a remarkable spectacle preceding the "Night of the Moolid", in which the Sheykh of the Saadeeyeh, the preacher of the mosque of the Hasaneyn recites prayers and secret invocations. Before the house of the Sheykh El Bekree, there are a considerable number of the "darweeshes" (followers) who laid themselves down upon the ground, having their