Painting made by the painter josep tapiró i baró (1880-1913). The painting represents a young bride from tangier (morocco), dressed in her traditional moroccan caftan richly embroidered with gold thread. She wears on her head the noble headdress heir to the mauro-andalusian traditions and customs, called "chedda of tangier" (or in moroccan language chedda tanjaouia). She is accompanied in the preparation of her wedding, according to the amazigh (berber) traditions of morocco by the nggagef (singular of neggafa, word of tamazight origin) who, according to the centuries-old ancestral tradition of morocco, prepare the bride. The main neggafa, called ma'llma who dictates under her authority the other nggagef or neggafates, is a white woman dressed in a mansouria which is a feminine garment consisting of a caftan and a transparent dfina worn over it. The nggagef (or neggafates) who are under the authority of the ma'llma, are black women, recruited from among the slaves of the kingdom. This work by the spanish painter obra de josep tapiró i baró is of inestimable anthropological richness, in fact, the work accurately depicts the customs of the kingdom of morocco, but also the craftsmanship, the fabrics and the rich embroideries, the taâjira embroidery, symbolic of andalusia, is also present. Date: between 1880 and 1913.
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