Horses too... (and half the barnyard...)
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Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on October 27, 1999 at 02:31:29:
In Reply to: Re: Henna as a textile dye in 450 BCE?...what about Marco Polo? posted by Kenzi on October 26, 1999 at 23:32:29:
I have at least a dozen prints of old paintings of hennaed horses from the Medieval Muslim world....Punjab to Turkey. They look really cool hennaed. Some are hennaed up to their middles with lovely decoration at the midline. Some have shanks, hooves and tails hennaed......then they may also have bracelets and gold trappings. One of the loveliest is a dappled grey with henna. Mostly they hennaed their white Arab geldings. Absolutely wonderful stuff! Camels are also hennaed for holidays, cows and their calfs are hennaed in India, Greyhounds and Salukis have their paws and tails hennaed similarly to horses in a few records. There's a lovely pet rabbit in one of my favorite Rajasthani miniatures....it's mistress is hennaed, but the rabbit, alas, is not. there are a couple of very sweet Rajasthani paintings, though of a whole row of cows and their calves, all smiling and nicely hennaed.
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