Skull cap of married woman

Turkmen

Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, Tashauzskaya Oblast, Kunya-Urgench district

1945-1950

Costume, Costume, headdress

Cloth: silk; threads: animal: silk

length 13.0; diameter 18.0

РЭМ 6620-4

“Taqiya” is a skull cap embroidered with color silk. The pattern is stylized, vegetable and geometric (top to bottom): “peikam” (arrow head) – irregular triangle; “gochok” (ram horns) – twirls; “tauk goz” (hen’s eyes) – black circles; “yilan evek” (snake trace) – wavy line; “sary chayan” (yellow scorpion) – the next two borders. The taqiya was initially embroidered for a girl of 12. A taqiya was worn by married Yamoud women as the base of a soft headgear. It was covered on top with a small rectangular piece of red silk or cotton fabric, whose ends were tucked under the taqiya. An “oramak yalyk” (large headscarf) or a long shawl was put on the top, with its middle fitting the taqiya tight, its left end being let down to the back, while the right end folded several times into a strip was passed under the chin from the right loop-like, fastening the loop’s end on top of the headgear. Over the shawl, a “dany” was wrapped around the head in the form of a turban, a three-meter piece of fabric folded whole-length.