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Lovely and rare insight on the jewelry of the region . thank you very much.
i can clearly see stamped tiny hands as dangles and would love to hear you about the use of the hand in the whole subregion, its occurence and meaning.
I have an old book from the former Parisian "Musée de l'homme" about "La main dans le levant e l'Afrique du nord" and all what i can say is that their input on the levant section is quite limited.
What is your experience on the ground?
Many thanx
Hello Alaa eddine,
I am afraid that I have to disappoint you: I don't have any special information about the hand-dangles... I presume they are amulets (Khamsa), but my knowledge about them doesn't reach farther than what Wikipedia says about them. I must add, that my knowledge of Iraqi Kurdistan is restricted to my contacts with Kurdish immigrants and refugees in Belgium (for some 10 years I was folklore dance teacher, at the Kurdish Institute of Brussels at first, and then at the Kurdish Buro, which are both secularized, non religious organizations with ditto members).
The nearest I ever got to the Iraqi Kurdistan region was Hakkâri (once) and Van-Bitlis-Diyarbakır-Urfa (several times). Anyway, my 'field experience' of the Central Kurdish territories is less extensive than of most of Turkey's other areas.
With kind regards, JM.