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I think it is Ersari (afghanistan), Kathleen.
Original sewn on fabric, it is forehead jewellery.
Thanks both of you - I will have to research further - unless someone here know more....
This is the only one like this I have seen too @ Patricia
hi Kathleen, I found a stylistically similar headdress in a book from the Il Corallo line. There is nothing extra to tell you though. The book only mentions that it is from Turkmenistan late 19th century. It does look like Ersari, but could very well be from one of the smaller Turkoman tribes. The use of coral or red non transparant glass is not very common in Turkoman jewellery as far as I know. I used to have a turkoman hat with metal/silver decorations that was very similar to this headdress and it was sold me to me as a piece from the chowdur/tschaudir turkoman tribe.
Hi Howah,
Thanks for the additional comments. And for the picture! Some of these pieces we find are so curious....I think due to the migration/nomadic of people there will always be fuzzy lines regarding exact origin. K