The Photo Collection of Edith Durham

Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo, 1903 - 1913

ED017_RAI 400.13173 Albania. Women of the Kastrati tribe (Photo: Edith Durham, May 1908). “Having finished our scrambled eggs and fried slices of sheep cheese, we set out again for Bratoshi in Kastrati Sypermi (Upper Kastrati) and soon entered Kastrati land. The track wound up a mountain-side of bare grey rocks. The horses, sorry beasts at best, were wearied out and the rest of the way had to be tramped. Down below lay, like a garden, the fertile plain of Lower Kastrati, and Scutari Lake blazed silver in the afternoon light. It was aksham, past – we had been thirteen hours on the way – when we finally came to the church of Bratoshi. The young Franciscan in charge made us very welcome, and his charming old mother bustled round to make ready supper.” (Edith Durham, High Albania, 1909).