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Festive jewelry. Muslim townswoman from Trabzon / Turkey. Picture from 1873.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on March 10, 2016 at 4:08pm

Close-up of the indoors costume of an urban Muslim woman, from Trabzon. Late-Ottoman, ca. 1870. The 'tepelik' (hat cover) is made of worked gilt silver. The medallion of the amulet necklace is gilt silver too; it bears a six-pointed 'Star of Süleyman', with Kabalistic/protective meaning and hangs on a string of pearls. Detail of a picture from ‘Les Costumes Populaires de la Turquie’- Osman Hamdi Bey, 1873. (Erfgoedbibliotheek, Antwerpen).

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