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Festive headgear & jewelry. Kurdish townswoman from Harput / Turkey. Picture from 1873.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on March 12, 2016 at 2:31am
Close-up of the headgear and 'chest jewels' of a Kurdish townswoman from Harput. Late-Ottoman, ca. 1870. The impressive headgear (called 'hotoz') implies many scarves (some of light colours, some dark), which are braided by each other on top of a small cap. A double chain with dangles is fixed to the 'hotoz' by means of two golden head pins.Two breads (black silk & golden metal thread) featuring two triangular silver pendents (one on each bread's end) come down from the silk chemise's chest part. Small golden medallions on chains hang down from the pendents' undersides. Detail of a picture from ‘Les Costumes Populaires de la Turquie’- Osman Hamdi Bey, 1873. (Erfgoedbibliotheek, Antwerpen).
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Tags: Anatolia, Harput., Kurdish, Turkey
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