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Traditional dress is one of the most important elements of the material culture of Dagestani folks.

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Unlike man garments ,which were almost uniform for all highlanders in Dagestan,

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there was an extremely variety and abundance of ornamentals in dresses of women,

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dresses had a lot particular features and preserved local culture traditions more quiescently.

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Traditional woman wear in Dagestan

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According to the way they more dresses and shawls ;

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to original headwear and bijous;

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to style of shoes

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one could accurately determine not only the ethnic group a woman presented

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but in major cases an aul (a mountain village) she was from.

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These women in fineries are Dargin from village Akusha.

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Silk tunics with ornamentals, white wraps.

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Under their wraps you can see ‘chukhtas’, which cover their heads and hair.

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On their feet there are morocco or numdah boots.

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Chukhta is a part of a headwear that is under a shawl or a wrap.

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It was made as a mutch or a coif with a pouch for hair.

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It was wide -spread among all nationalities of Dagestan.

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Its main use was to cover hair.

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By the time wraps were displaced by shawls or veil.

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Dargin women from village Mugi wore short fur coats every season within a year.

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While working they fixed their wraps or shawls by massive silver chainlets.

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In village Urari women wore multicolour chukhtas

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consisting of three major parts and a black ribbon on the forehead and sinciput zones.

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On that ribbon there were bijous, coins, badges and buttons.

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On the other parts of chukhtas they sewed massive silver ornamentals, inlaid medallions

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that could hang down from temple zones or be thrown back.

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Women put black covers over chukhtas.

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Elderly women wore undresses of black or dark colours as a rule.

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Here accompanied by girl-friends there is a girl in a wedding dress from Butri.

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By custom a close relative of her groom is unveiling her face

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and giving bread to brides friends.

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A finery dress of Dargin village Butri is black for a woman and bright for a girl.

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Dargin women from village Hapshima are belted by wide white cloth

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that is tied in front and its ends are dangling .

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The chukhta is a mutch-overlay that covers hair on the top and dangles on back.

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Black ribbon they sewed down to a mutch under chin .

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Young women wore silver chainlets instead of ribbons

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or decorated ribbons by silver elements.

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Garments of women from Tsudakhar village consisted of long tunic, black wide pants and soft boots.

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A headwear, which was covered by a wrap

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looked like a mutch with a pouch for hair. Upper cut is decorated by massive coiled chainlet.

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This tradition goes back to early ages.

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Kumik women were trend setters in Dagestan .

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They enriched fashion of many mountain ethic groups with bodice dresses with deep neckline,

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fancy wide or long sleeves with narrow sleevelets, clasps on boson and earrings.

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Lezgi garment.

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Hair is covered by ‘shutka’ .

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A dress with a cutline on a waist is overlaid by other fancy dress.

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Silver waist band decorated as a rule a wedding dress only.

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Over shutka they put on a silk shawl or a veil.

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Garments of folks of Lezgi ethnic group were influenced by Azerbaijan nation

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and were extremely multicolour, fine and splendid.

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Alike was a Tabasaran dress a bodice dress with narrow sleeves

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They put a robe with wide sleeves on it.

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Atop a finery or a wedding dress they wore a pinafore with silver coins and buttons sewed on it.

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Lak women had chukhta - a cloth with a linning -

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a head part of it was like a mutch .

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The best shoe makers in Dagestan were Laks .

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They produced different shoes inclusive fine fancy shoes decorated by golden or silver threads.

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The women from a Lak mountain village Tseisha.

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A particular place took a dress of an Avar woman .

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Tribe differences of Avars , features of their spreading over large mountain territory

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caused great variety of woman dresses.

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Avar women from village Khunzakh

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didn't have heavy headwears and lots of metal elements.

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A woman dress was soft and comfortable enough.

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Dresses stitched on figure with wide sleeves and narrow oversleeves came here relatively betimes.

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Archin chukhta, corered by bright overlay ,

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has an original asymmetrical ribbon of silver coins.

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The adornments consist of medallions with pendants and chainlets.

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It adorns the left side of a face and is fixed on the crown.

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As shoes they could wear boots made of leather or numdah.

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A woman from Rugudja wore absolutely original headwear.

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Its silver pendants in form of bells dangled from vertex till temples.

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A veil with silver pendants sewed on its upper cut covered a woman face like a chador.

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Avar women from Gergebil in fineries and undresses.

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Finery garment included a headwear with solid silver platen and coins dangling on chainlets .

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In village Gidalti women wore chukhta in form of much with a pouch,

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it was decorated by large temple lockets.

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On a crown zone they sewed a solid silver platen decorated by traditional ornament and niello.

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A chukhta was covered by large overlay.

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Chukhta in village Ushtada was a unique coif without a pouch.

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It looked like sharp peaked hood.

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A coif is decorated by big beads, coins and big double temple rings.

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One of these rings was twisted.

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Along a back there is a long rectangular width sewed down to a coif.

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The shoes are boots with roundish toes knitted of wood threads.

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Cloth belt was tied in front and its ends dangling.

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The same dress was in village Tengi.

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While working a rectangular width of chukhta was put on a head,

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a cloth belt was tied behind a back and a wide dress was tucked up a belt.

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A woman from village Chokh wore a black turban atop an overlay.

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Chukhta was made as a mutch or a sharp peaked coif with sort paddles,

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a piece of leather was sewed down to a coif,

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it covered a neck and hair and hang down along a back.

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Women from Andi wore a high mutch in a form of a seat.

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It was filled up by wadding.

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According to archeological data this tradition goes back to high antiquity.

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A long piece of width was sewed on its back, and it hang down along a back.

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Belts were not used.

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Along wide dress was tucked up on hips behind a waistband of pants.

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Over chukhta they wore a large white overlay.

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In Tlarata women wore a coif entirely covered by fancy work and ornamentals silver chainlets and tubes.

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Over a coif they put on a wrap, shawl or veil.

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On feet there were inwrought boots knitted of thick wool threads.

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Boots had toes sharply bended inside.

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This is one of possible variants of woman wear from village Tsunta.

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You have seen Dagestan woman dresses of 19-20 centuries

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but even till now when there is a happy holiday,

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they open ancient granny’s dower chests,

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and unique traditional wear of Dagestan Mountains,

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never forgotten by its people,

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goes out.