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Women's head band. Turkmen

Title:

Women's head band

Ethnic groups:

Turkmen

Territory:

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

Date:

1940-1951

Collectors-person:
Knorozov Yuri V.
Rubrics:

Costume, Costume, headdress

Material:

Cloth: calico

Dimensions:

length 300.0; width 60.0

Number:

РЭМ 6620-7

Annotation:

“Alyn-dany” of a rectangular piece of orange calico, with large and small pink flowers. The band was part of the women’s headgear to be wrapped as a turban over a “yaglyk” headscarf. Traditionally, a “dany” headscarf served this function with the Yamoud women of Dashoguz.

Albums:
Yuri Knorozov's collections in the Russian Museum of Ethnography. To the 100th anniversary of the birth
Rus:
Головная повязка замужней женщины. Туркмены