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Elsie Ferguson and Pedro de Cordoba in a scene still for "Barbary Sheep"
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English noblewoman Lady Wyverne (played by Elsie Ferguson) poses on a balcony in a Moorish palace and offers her hand to Arab chieftan Benchaalal (Pedro de Cordoba) standing below in a scene still for the silent film "Barbary Sheep." She wears a complicated beaded dress, has yards of pearls around her neck, a feathered headdress on her head, and a large fan made of peacock feathers in her other hand. Benchaalal wears a turban and silken robes.
1917
Artcraft Pictures Corporation
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1917
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