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Urban headgear. Muslim (Arab) townswoman from Siirt /Turkey. Picture from 1873.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on March 11, 2016 at 2:29am

Close-up of the headgear of a Muslim (Arab) townswoman from Sa'rit (nowadays Siirt). Late-Ottoman, ca. 1870. It implies a large and long silk headscarf, winded around the head and topped by a worked 'tepelik' (metal head cover) made of gilt silver, having a double row of small gold coins hanging on chains by way of dangles. Detail of a picture from ‘Les Costumes Populaires de la Turquie’- Osman Hamdi Bey, 1873. (Erfgoedbibliotheek, Antwerpen).

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