Traditional Persian clothing, officials and citizens, chromolithograph, published in 1888 - stock illustration

Traditional Persian clothing, top (feft to right): Court officials who acoustically announce the sunrise and sunset with trumpet blasts and drum rolls (3x); high dignitary who has to present the shisha, the nargileh or kalean to the Shah (center + right). Below: Men explaining the use of nargilehs and kalean (shishas) to the street audience (left + right); Water carrier (Abdari), who also carries a container of ice (second from left); Tea seller (center); Indian dervish who collects the proceeds of his begging in the coconut shells and encourages the believers to donate with the horn at his side (second from the right). Chromolithograph from the book "Le Costume Historique (Historical Costume)", published by Albert Charles Auguste Racinet, Libraire Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris, in 1888.