Face veil of a female Hajji

Face veil, part of a set of clothes of a female hadji consisting of a head scarf, face veil and overgarment. In 19th century Indonesia, men and women who had completed the hadj, the pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca, sometimes distinguished themselves from the rest of the population by the clothes they wore. These so-called hadji clothes were bought on the Arabian Peninsula during …