Photograph of Yusuf Gondo and Mehmet Zorba no. 2

Photograph taken between 1910 and 1915. It shows two young boys (10-12 years old), Yusuf Gondo and Mehmet Zorba, standing side by side and holding their right hands. They are similarly dressed. Yusuf Gondo (left), who was born in 1900 in Kanli and died in 1941, wears the Ottoman fes (fez, turk. Osmanlı durulla fes) and around it a yemeni (headscarf) decorated with a handmade lace with the tulip pattern; his costume comprises a gömlek (shirt) with designs, white beyaz dizlik (bez knee-breeches) and a kırmızı guşak (red sash, turk. kırmızı kuşak) around his waist. The white cotton çorap (stockings) are hand-knitted and cover the legs up to the knees. They are held in place with knitted or plaited dark-coloured handmade cotton örme (straps). The kundura (shoes, turk. kuntura) are plain and black. Mehmet Zorba (right) also wears the Ottoman fes (fez, turk. Osmanlı durulla fes), which has a püskül (tassel); its lower part is surrounded by a çevre (kerchief) ornamented with lace reproducing a leaf pattern (yaprak oya). His linen (bez) gömlek (shirt) is made of a striped cloth (alaca), the dizlik (knee-breeches) are of white cotton and covered at the waist by a kırmızı guşak (red sash, turk. kırmızı kuşak). His cotton çorap (stockings) are hand-knitted and held in place below the knee with handmade straps. The kundura (shoes, turk. kuntura) are black and decorated with a toka (buckle) on the front.