RARE MOORISH GIRLS 1860S CDV PHOTO BY CHOUFFLY ETHNIC MOROCCO ARAB AFRICA Railroadiana if this portrait was taken

if this portrait was taken for memorial purposes

in black or charcoal gray

I think one has a bumped corner

but overall a clear image

RARE MOORISH GIRLS 1860S CDV PHOTO BY CHOUFFLY ETHNIC MOROCCO ARAB AFRICA Railroadiana if this portrait was takenOriginal CDV. On the back is written, "Moorish Girls, Tangiers" [Morocco], also signed by the photographer, A. ChoufflyFrom online:"These cartes de visite, nevertheless, are of considerable importance. They not only represent some of the finest ever North African figure studies, but they are remarkably early studies of Moroccan people. The photograph might equally reporesent the work of one of the first resident phoographs in that country. Studios do