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Silver belt buckles. Late-Ottoman. Tarsus Museum.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on February 24, 2016 at 7:14pm

Three ‘toka’ (woman’s belt buckle) from the Yörük and Türkmen villages* of the Çukurova plain (east of Adana). Late-Ottoman era, ca. 1900. Partly gilt silver. On exhibit in the Tarsus Museum. (© Dick Osseman).*: according to the museum’s assertion.