HELP. heritage inquiry

[DALMAR0_0]

Does anyone know how this style of clothing was wrapped? I can't find any source for it. If u know please give details and if not then ask ur dad's and if possible granddads.

also if anyone has sources that would be great

 

[Testo 21]

That looks like what they wear in mecca.

 

[gasara]

Might be wrong but I think its called Labada go https://www.somalispot.com/threads/vintage-somali-mens-clothing.12509/ My bad your asking about the wrapping. I know some people who still dress like this back home so I can ask around.

 

[Shimbiris]

It's a style of dress that was the main tradition from Nubia down to Northern Kenya and from Xafuun to Bornu even in relatively recent times. 19th century Cadaans called it the "tobe" and found it to be the norm among "Aethiopid" peoples of Sudan, the Horn and Chad.

These robes were worn in many different ways and generally seem to resemble the styles of dress found in Ancient Egyptian and Nubian murals as well as the Hajj dress code which points to this probably being how ancient Northeast Africans and Arabians generally dressed as well.

It's usually two cloths fastened to be that way. I'll look up some texts I remember reading on how it was fastened or ask a relative and try to get back to you.

 

[DALMAR0_0]

Might be wrong but I think its called Labada go https://www.somalispot.com/threads/vintage-somali-mens-clothing.12509/ My bad your asking about the wrapping. I know some people who still dress like this back home so I can ask around.

I believe labada go is the 2 separate upper wrap and bottom wrap /hoos'gunti.

Yes please ask around that would great

 

[DALMAR0_0]

It's a style of dress that was the main tradition from Nubia down to Northern Kenya and from Xafuun to Bornu even in relatively recent times. 19th century Cadaans called it the "tobe" and found it to be the norm among "Aethiopid" peoples of Sudan, the Horn and Chad.

These robes were worn in many different ways and generally seem to resemble the styles of dress found in Ancient Egyptian and Nubian murals as well as the Hajj dress code which points to this probably being how ancient Northeast Africans and Arabians generally dressed as well.

It's usually two cloths fastened to be that way. I'll look up some texts I remember reading on how it was fastened or ask a relative and try to get back to you.

Interesting. I couldnt find any sources of non Somalis wrapping long garment like this. Surprisingly the ancient Rome toga comes close. Could u post some pictures or source of the other African communities who wrap like this that u mentioned?

Also much thanks for doing the inquiry

 

[Shimbiris]

Interesting. I couldnt find any sources of non Somalis wrapping long garment like this. Surprisingly the ancient Rome toga comes close. Could u post some pictures or source of the other African communities who wrap like this that u mentioned?

Also much thanks for doing the inquiry

That's odd, walaal. You just need to google images of any ethnic group from Aswan down to NFD and into Chad from like the 19th century and early 20th century and you'll immediately notice this style of dress was the norm:

We belong to the same cultural region. Even in the early modern era the inhabitants of the Horn, Sudan, Southern Egypt (Lower Nubia) and Chad largely dressed in that white-robes motif:

The Tobe, or Abyssinian “Quarry,” is the general garment of Africa from Zayla to Bornou. In the Somali country it is a cotton sheet eight cubits long, and two breadths sewn together. An article of various uses, like the Highland plaid, it is worn in many ways; sometimes the right arm is bared; in cold weather the whole person is muffled up, and in summer it is allowed to full below the waist. Generally it is passed behind the back, rests upon the left shoulder, is carried forward over the breast, surrounds the body, and ends hanging on the left shoulder, where it displays a gaudy silk fringe of red and yellow. This is the man’s Tobe. The woman’s dress is of similar material, but differently worn: the edges are knotted generally over the right, sometimes over the left shoulder; it is girdled round the waist, below which hangs a lappet, which in cold weather can be brought like a hood over the head. Though highly becoming, and picturesque as the Roman toga, the Somali Tobe is by no means the most decorous of dresses: women in the towns often prefer the Arab costume,—a short-sleeved robe extending to the knee, and a Futah or loin-cloth underneath. -First footsteps in East Africa

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Egypt, Sudan & Chad:

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Abyssinia and Eritrean coast:

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Somalia:

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I strongly suspect that by its strong resemblance to Ancient Nubian and Egyptian reliefs this style of dressing is thousands of years old and it may have also once been just as common in Arabia as well given the Hajj dress-code and some examples I've seen of Bedouin attire across Arabia around the 19th century.

I'm going to someday create an archive of images from all the ethnic groups and share it on this site but it will take time but for now you can see the description on how it is put on in that quote within my quote above.

 

[Maakhri2024]

I believe labada go' is the 2 separate upper wrap and bottom wrap/ Hoos-gunti .

Yes please ask around that would great

The shendyt ( Egyptian loincloth ) :
𓈙 𓈖𓆓 𓅱 𓏏 𓋯 šnḏwt : noun ( fem ) .

šnḏwt =gntwt ( guntiino / guntiinda ) .
gunti ( v) ,guntin ( n) ,gunti/guntiga ( n ) .
gunto (guntaday ,guntatay ) .

𓈙 𓈖𓆓𓅱𓏏𓋯 shendyt (šnḏyt, Schenti, Schent, Shent, Skent) was a type of loincloth similar to a skirt. It was a kilt-like garment worn in ancient Egypt. It was made of cloth and was worn around the waist, typically extending to above the knees.

demotic egyptian language : šnt ( “ costume, kilt ” ) .
in ancient egyptian language šnt ( shunti )
in Somali : gunti ( gnt ) .
gunti ( gnt ) ⇆ šnt ( shunti ) .

Ancient Egyptian wearing a loincloth (shendyt : šnt / gunti ) .