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Festive hats with metal/silver cover, for women. Late-Ottoman. Tarsus Museum.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on February 23, 2016 at 11:21pm
Three ‘tepelikli fes’ (festive woman’s hats with metal/silver cover). From the Yörük and Türkmen villages* of the Çukurova plain (east of Adana). Late-Ottoman era, ca. 1900. The one in the middle has a black silk tassel/imitation hair, hanging from its backside. On exhibit in the Tarsus Museum. (© Dick Osseman).*: according to the museum’s assertion.PS: there is a similar hat on exhibit in the Adana Ethnographical Museum.
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Tags: Anatolia, Turkey, late-Ottoman.
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  • Peter Hoesli February 24, 2016 at 12:01am
    Dear Jean-Marie; Stunning. I have a similar hat with corals, posted a while ago on EJ. I just love your posts! Thanks a lot! Peter
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