{"pk":63572,"title":"<!--StartFragment-->Nubian Women’s Bridal Rooms<!--EndFragment-->","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p><!--StartFragment--></p>\n<pre class=\"a-b-r-La\" style='display: block; font-family: \"Courier New\", Courier, monospace, arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>The article discusses the decoration of wedding rooms in Egyptian Nubia before the resettlement of the population due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam in 1964. In the former Nubian villages, it was the task of a bride to decorate a special place, the so-called bride’s room, before the marriage. This activity was part of the extensive house-decoration, consisting foremost of wall paintings, which the women painted with earth colors on their home’s outer and inner walls. Their rich and often opulent adornment with three-dimensional objects made the Nubian bridal rooms particular. Homemade handiwork hung up on the walls or suspended from the ceilings formed the main feature of the room’s design. On top of this, a mixture of peculiar items was displayed. These could be anything the brides considered valuable and composed inventively into an artistic design, whether as an assemblage or as “objets trouvés”. The custom to furnish a bridal room in this manner was discontinued after the Nubians were moved to the new villages north of Aswan. The article is a part of my forthcoming publication “Colors of Nubia, the lost art of women’s house decoration”. </pre>\n<p><!--EndFragment--></p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Nubia"},{"word":"women"},{"word":"gender"},{"word":"ethnography"},{"word":"art"},{"word":"history"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13q8q983","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Armgard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Goo-Grauer","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2026-02-26T17:43:56.768484Z","date_accepted":"2026-02-26T17:44:25.021532Z","date_published":"2026-02-26T16:45:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"Nubian Women’s Bridal Rooms","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/dotawo/article/63572/galley/48909/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"Nubian Women’s Bridal Rooms","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/dotawo/article/63572/galley/48909/download/"}]}