Ras Makonnen ca. August 1902.

Source: V&A Lafayette

Photographer: Lafayette Ltd., 179 New Bond Street, London.

Costume: Lion's hair head-dress; velvet shoulder-cloak (lempd), decorated with gold emboidery; silk shirt; belt or cummerbund of silk; closely fitting jodphur-like white cotton trousers.

Costume Supplier: Cloak and shirt probably made by Serouphi Ebeyan, dress-maker to the Ethiopian Court.

Weapons: Curved Ethiopian sword in leather scabbard; (Rifle) probably Lee Speed .303 bolt action rifle (known variously in Amharic as dimoftär, dimotfär, or dimetfor).

Furniture & Props: Painted backdrop.

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