Traditional greeting area in a large home

Well-off rural families would reserve large rooms of this sort to greet male visitors. They would be served coffee and items to eat before talking informally.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

2017-03

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Muscat (Oman)

Welch-Ludwig Collection

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