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The amulet boxes are also superb!
The upper amulet box is fantastic! With kind regards. Peter
Lovely pieces, Jean-Marie. But it's interesting that although the Museum attributes these to the Yoruk and Turkmen villages, there are so few (if any) features that we normally associate with Turkmen jewellery. I see you have written 'according to the museum's assertion'. Does that mean you have your own reservations?
To Thelma: Thanks a lot for your comment. To answer your questions:
1) Most of the old Turkish tribes living in Anatolia (Yörük, Türkmen, and many others) arrived many centuries ago. The Anatolian Yörük and Türkmen are two branches of a common ancestral group, which is related to the Central Asian Türkmens (from Türkmenistan, North Arghanistan, etc.); but that relationship is (both in time & space) so far away, that their respective cultures have drifted apart from each other. That is why the Türkmen clothing & jewelry from Anatolia are totally different from the Türkmenistan ones.
2) As to my own reservations, they are of another nature. If some of the jewelry came from Syrian-Arab or Kurdish homes (which is possible in the Çukurova plain), this information may be kept hidden by the Museum authorities. The Turkish state has a long history of problematic relations with its (former and contemporary) non-Turkish minorities: 'Rum' (Anatolian Greeks), Armenians, Assyrians (Eastern Orthodox Christians), Syro-Arabs, Kurds, etc., etc. And since the provincial museums depend on the Turkish Ministry of Culture...
With kind regards, JM.
I absolutely love the amulet boxes. tha top one is just fantastic.
i so very much understand what you are meaning by this political, almost ideological, interference of authourities with sane cultural historical researches.
Post ottoman turkey is a good example of such intereferences.
I will post a picture of a pair of temporal/earrings and would love to have your toughts about them Jean -Marie. Thank you