Object Details
- Description
- Gelatin silver print full-length portrait of Prophet Noble Drew Ali, founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America. Against a studio landscape backdrop, Ali stands looking straight at the camera, his proper right hand held flat against the center of his torso and his left hand at his side. He wears a light colored tunic over loose trousers, with an oblong piece of striped fabric around his waist and an elaborately embroidered, dark colored sash over his proper right shoulder. The sash ends in a rectangular piece of fabric below his left hip, with fringing around the edges. He also wears a turban with a large, dark colored plume. At the bottom right corner, written by hand in the negative: [PROPHET NOBLE DREW ALI / FOUNDER OF MOORISH SCIENCE / TEMPLE OF AMERICA 1925 / R.O. JONES / PHOTO]. The verso has a numerical inscription in graphite at the top left corner.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- R. D. Jones, American, active 1920s
- Subject of
- Prophet Noble Drew Ali, American, 1886 - 1929
- Moorish Science Temple of America, American, founded 1913
- Date
- 1925
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 9 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. (24.1 x 19.4 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
