The Photo Collection of Edith Durham

Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo, 1903 - 1913

ED025_RAI 400.13289 Montenegro. Andrijevica. The market in the town of Andrijevica in eastern Montenegro (Photo: Edith Durham, 30 June 1903). “Sunday was Kosovo Day and Monday was market day. A crowd of strange beings flocked in from Gusinje, wild mountain Albanians, with heads swathed in white cloths and restless, watchful eyes. But the bringing of the weapons to market has been lately forbidden, and they had nothing more lethal upon them than well-filled cartridge belts, with which even the little boys were equipped. Our interest in one another was mutual, and I spent most of the morning in the market and down by the river, where they were selling and slaughtering sheep and goats, and the purple puddles were so suitable to the scene that they ceased to be revolting.” (Edith Durham, Through the Lands of the Serb, 1904).