Armenian man from Zeitun, around 1890

An Armenian man from Zeitun, around 1890. Zeitun was an Armenian town in Mountainous Cilicia. Today it is the township of Süleymanlı in the province of Kahramanmaraş, Turkey.

The photograph was taken in a studio. The man has a patterned cloth wound around his head, its end falling onto his shoulder. He wears a costume and a coat edged with ornamental patterns and holds a sword in its scabbard.