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  Kathleen McCabe-Elsey April 12, 2010 at 5:15pm

  Need help with this one...
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  Johanne August 4, 2011 at 9:38pm

  I think it is Ersari (afghanistan), Kathleen.

  Original sewn on fabric, it is forehead jewellery.
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  Patricia Deany August 4, 2011 at 9:47pm

  This is truly wonderful, I have a lot of Turkoman headdresses and have never seen this configuration.
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  Kathleen McCabe-Elsey August 4, 2011 at 10:55pm

  Thanks both of you - I will have to research further - unless someone here know more....

  This is the only one like this I have seen too @ Patricia
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  Patricia Deany August 5, 2011 at 6:12pm

  Interesting thing about this piece, the kind of spring-like silver things that hold the coral colored drops -- I have never seen that kind of drop holder in Turkoman jewelry, it is used very often, however, in Uzbek jewelry, but the diamond-shaped drops and the center pendant are absolutely not Uzbek. It is kind of a mystery. I have never seen the joined silver bumps which make up the majority of the headdress in any Turkoman piece, at least that I remember. So I guess I am a bit puzzled -- you know, maybe Linda Pastorino would know about this -- she has collected extensively in all areas.
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  Kathleen McCabe-Elsey August 5, 2011 at 7:55pm

  I will take closeup images later today - The diamond drops could have been added later..I bought this as you see it. 
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  Johanne August 5, 2011 at 11:51pm

  In the book Jewellery from the orient, Treasures from the Bir collection ( W.D Seifert) is a nearly similar piece attributed to The Ersari tribe on page 240. I have had such a piece in my hands a half year ago on a collectorsmarket, with the same diamond-shaped drops. It had a pink stone on the center pendant. I did not buy it ; too much damage, and the side dangles were missing. The seller could only tell me he bought it in Kabul.
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  Kathleen McCabe-Elsey August 6, 2011 at 1:29am

  Thanks Johanne,  Yes, the label could have been its last origin before coming to the states...It does have a Central East feel to me...it has a similar patina that some of my Esari bracelets have.  I see if I can find that book.  Thanks! :)
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  howah February 1, 2012 at 11:53am

  hi Kathleen, I found a stylistically similar headdress in a book from the Il Corallo line. There is nothing extra to tell you though. The book only mentions that it is from Turkmenistan late 19th century. It does look like Ersari, but could very well be from one of the smaller Turkoman tribes. The use of coral or red non transparant glass is not very common in Turkoman jewellery as far as I know. I used to have a turkoman hat with metal/silver decorations that was very similar to this headdress and it was sold me to me as a piece from the chowdur/tschaudir turkoman tribe.

  
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  Kathleen McCabe-Elsey February 1, 2012 at 4:28pm

  Hi Howah,

  Thanks for the additional comments.  And for the picture!  Some of these pieces we find are so curious....I think due to the migration/nomadic of people there will always be fuzzy lines regarding exact origin. K