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Festive headgear. Armenian, from Çatak (Van) / Turkey. Russian Museum of Ethnography.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on March 26, 2016 at 4:04pm

Traditional festive headgear, called 'katik'. Late-Ottoman era, Armenian, from the village of Çatak/Shatakh, in the Van province. Early 20th c. This 'katik' is a female headdress on a bracket wooden frame. Its shape is a diadem decorated with metal pendants, glass beads & seed-beads and features a multilayer and complicate composition. Collected in 1916. (The Russian Museum of Ethnography, St.Petersburg).

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