Photograph: Kola Pomor women
Russians
Arkhangelsk province
1887
Museum of the Peoples of the USSR
Salt paper print
21,5 x 13; 24,5 x 16,5
РЭМ 8764-758
The picture shows women of the Tersk or Kandalaksha coast of the Kola Peninsula wearing traditional festive costumes. The main components were a festive white chemise consisting of two parts, or a plastron with short or long sleeves like a short chemisette and a pinafore. Pinafores were decorated with frills, multicolor ribbons, or lace. The girl’s headgear is a soft headband folded from a silk kerchief into a hoop. Ribbons (kosniks) were twined into the plaits of little and teenage girls. Required attributes of festive costumes were decorations: beads, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and rings. Abstract by O.G. Baranova
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