Unidentified photographer / Unidentified publisher
1850 (ca)
Italian Pifferari

Salted paper print, from paper negative
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2015.773
 
Pifferari were itinerant musicians who left the hills of their native Calabria to supplement their incomes as shepherds by playing before shrines dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
 
LL/99391