WEBVTT 00:00:45.699 --> 00:00:53.036 Traditional dress is one of the most important elements of the material culture of Dagestani folks. 00:00:53.036 --> 00:00:56.705 Unlike man garments ,which were almost uniform for all highlanders in Dagestan, 00:00:56.705 --> 00:01:01.535 there was an extremely variety and abundance of ornamentals in dresses of women, 00:01:01.535 --> 00:01:34.364 dresses had a lot particular features and preserved local culture traditions more quiescently. 00:01:34.364 --> 00:01:47.964 Traditional woman wear in Dagestan 00:01:47.964 --> 00:01:50.629 According to the way they more dresses and shawls ; 00:01:50.629 --> 00:01:53.822 to original headwear and bijous; 00:01:53.822 --> 00:01:55.629 to style of shoes 00:01:55.629 --> 00:02:01.486 one could accurately determine not only the ethnic group a woman presented 00:02:01.486 --> 00:02:07.244 but in major cases an aul (a mountain village) she was from. 00:02:07.244 --> 00:02:15.856 These women in fineries are Dargin from village Akusha. 00:02:15.856 --> 00:02:18.737 Silk tunics with ornamentals, white wraps. 00:02:18.737 --> 00:02:25.057 Under their wraps you can see ‘chukhtas’, which cover their heads and hair. 00:02:25.057 --> 00:02:46.764 On their feet there are morocco or numdah boots. 00:02:46.764 --> 00:02:53.104 Chukhta is a part of a headwear that is under a shawl or a wrap. 00:02:53.104 --> 00:02:57.430 It was made as a mutch or a coif with a pouch for hair. 00:02:57.430 --> 00:03:01.695 It was wide -spread among all nationalities of Dagestan. 00:03:01.695 --> 00:03:07.981 Its main use was to cover hair. 00:03:08.350 --> 00:03:20.378 By the time wraps were displaced by shawls or veil. 00:03:23.301 --> 00:03:31.145 Dargin women from village Mugi wore short fur coats every season within a year. 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:19.250 While working they fixed their wraps or shawls by massive silver chainlets. 00:04:38.756 --> 00:04:43.926 In village Urari women wore multicolour chukhtas 00:04:43.926 --> 00:04:53.773 consisting of three major parts and a black ribbon on the forehead and sinciput zones. 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:56.834 On that ribbon there were bijous, coins, badges and buttons. 00:04:59.019 --> 00:05:07.149 On the other parts of chukhtas they sewed massive silver ornamentals, inlaid medallions 00:05:07.272 --> 00:05:12.079 that could hang down from temple zones or be thrown back. 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:18.138 Women put black covers over chukhtas. 00:05:30.198 --> 00:05:36.196 Elderly women wore undresses of black or dark colours as a rule. 00:05:59.147 --> 00:06:06.223 Here accompanied by girl-friends there is a girl in a wedding dress from Butri. 00:06:12.152 --> 00:06:16.396 By custom a close relative of her groom is unveiling her face 00:06:16.481 --> 00:06:23.203 and giving bread to brides friends. 00:06:50.068 --> 00:07:14.749 A finery dress of Dargin village Butri is black for a woman and bright for a girl. 00:07:26.102 --> 00:07:33.154 Dargin women from village Hapshima are belted by wide white cloth 00:07:33.184 --> 00:07:38.512 that is tied in front and its ends are dangling . 00:07:38.512 --> 00:07:45.219 The chukhta is a mutch-overlay that covers hair on the top and dangles on back. 00:07:45.225 --> 00:07:51.193 Black ribbon they sewed down to a mutch under chin . 00:07:51.241 --> 00:07:55.180 Young women wore silver chainlets instead of ribbons 00:07:55.196 --> 00:08:01.255 or decorated ribbons by silver elements. 00:08:23.048 --> 00:08:33.377 Garments of women from Tsudakhar village consisted of long tunic, black wide pants and soft boots. 00:08:40.070 --> 00:08:43.423 A headwear, which was covered by a wrap 00:08:43.423 --> 00:08:48.807 looked like a mutch with a pouch for hair. Upper cut is decorated by massive coiled chainlet. 00:08:57.212 --> 00:09:04.295 This tradition goes back to early ages. 00:09:20.034 --> 00:09:28.855 Kumik women were trend setters in Dagestan . 00:09:42.023 --> 00:09:50.229 They enriched fashion of many mountain ethic groups with bodice dresses with deep neckline, 00:09:50.229 --> 00:10:04.280 fancy wide or long sleeves with narrow sleevelets, clasps on boson and earrings. 00:10:16.678 --> 00:10:19.799 Lezgi garment. 00:10:19.805 --> 00:10:26.673 Hair is covered by ‘shutka’ . 00:10:28.350 --> 00:10:38.509 A dress with a cutline on a waist is overlaid by other fancy dress. 00:10:52.693 --> 00:10:58.423 Silver waist band decorated as a rule a wedding dress only. 00:11:16.728 --> 00:11:22.428 Over shutka they put on a silk shawl or a veil. 00:11:23.473 --> 00:11:29.580 Garments of folks of Lezgi ethnic group were influenced by Azerbaijan nation 00:11:29.589 --> 00:11:36.842 and were extremely multicolour, fine and splendid. 00:11:59.147 --> 00:12:07.830 Alike was a Tabasaran dress a bodice dress with narrow sleeves 00:12:09.829 --> 00:12:16.696 They put a robe with wide sleeves on it. 00:12:45.633 --> 00:13:00.407 Atop a finery or a wedding dress they wore a pinafore with silver coins and buttons sewed on it. 00:13:46.771 --> 00:13:53.746 Lak women had chukhta - a cloth with a linning - 00:13:53.746 --> 00:13:58.368 a head part of it was like a mutch . 00:13:58.369 --> 00:14:01.944 The best shoe makers in Dagestan were Laks . 00:14:01.944 --> 00:14:12.973 They produced different shoes inclusive fine fancy shoes decorated by golden or silver threads. 00:14:24.710 --> 00:14:37.854 The women from a Lak mountain village Tseisha. 00:15:09.234 --> 00:15:12.940 A particular place took a dress of an Avar woman . 00:15:12.940 --> 00:15:19.523 Tribe differences of Avars , features of their spreading over large mountain territory 00:15:19.538 --> 00:15:26.298 caused great variety of woman dresses. 00:15:26.298 --> 00:15:28.836 Avar women from village Khunzakh 00:15:28.843 --> 00:15:32.817 didn't have heavy headwears and lots of metal elements. 00:15:32.817 --> 00:15:37.900 A woman dress was soft and comfortable enough. 00:15:47.254 --> 00:15:59.460 Dresses stitched on figure with wide sleeves and narrow oversleeves came here relatively betimes. 00:16:35.901 --> 00:16:39.861 Archin chukhta, corered by bright overlay , 00:16:39.861 --> 00:16:46.667 has an original asymmetrical ribbon of silver coins. 00:16:55.511 --> 00:17:02.364 The adornments consist of medallions with pendants and chainlets. 00:17:02.364 --> 00:17:07.340 It adorns the left side of a face and is fixed on the crown. 00:17:17.831 --> 00:17:24.775 As shoes they could wear boots made of leather or numdah. 00:17:37.251 --> 00:17:43.904 A woman from Rugudja wore absolutely original headwear. 00:17:43.904 --> 00:17:52.002 Its silver pendants in form of bells dangled from vertex till temples. 00:18:03.170 --> 00:18:13.053 A veil with silver pendants sewed on its upper cut covered a woman face like a chador. 00:18:38.818 --> 00:18:51.969 Avar women from Gergebil in fineries and undresses. 00:19:36.750 --> 00:19:50.325 Finery garment included a headwear with solid silver platen and coins dangling on chainlets . 00:20:03.186 --> 00:20:11.230 In village Gidalti women wore chukhta in form of much with a pouch, 00:20:11.230 --> 00:20:12.753 it was decorated by large temple lockets. 00:20:12.776 --> 00:20:21.444 On a crown zone they sewed a solid silver platen decorated by traditional ornament and niello. 00:20:21.490 --> 00:20:26.527 A chukhta was covered by large overlay. 00:20:43.741 --> 00:20:49.533 Chukhta in village Ushtada was a unique coif without a pouch. 00:20:49.533 --> 00:20:52.369 It looked like sharp peaked hood. 00:20:52.369 --> 00:20:58.729 A coif is decorated by big beads, coins and big double temple rings. 00:20:58.729 --> 00:21:01.919 One of these rings was twisted. 00:21:01.919 --> 00:21:11.371 Along a back there is a long rectangular width sewed down to a coif. 00:21:11.371 --> 00:21:19.639 The shoes are boots with roundish toes knitted of wood threads. 00:21:19.639 --> 00:21:29.431 Cloth belt was tied in front and its ends dangling. 00:21:29.477 --> 00:21:33.761 The same dress was in village Tengi. 00:21:33.761 --> 00:21:43.752 While working a rectangular width of chukhta was put on a head, 00:21:44.321 --> 00:21:57.297 a cloth belt was tied behind a back and a wide dress was tucked up a belt. 00:22:38.292 --> 00:22:51.374 A woman from village Chokh wore a black turban atop an overlay. 00:22:51.374 --> 00:22:56.302 Chukhta was made as a mutch or a sharp peaked coif with sort paddles, 00:22:56.334 --> 00:23:01.510 a piece of leather was sewed down to a coif, 00:23:01.694 --> 00:23:07.301 it covered a neck and hair and hang down along a back. 00:23:14.239 --> 00:23:19.323 Women from Andi wore a high mutch in a form of a seat. 00:23:19.369 --> 00:23:22.407 It was filled up by wadding. 00:23:23.192 --> 00:23:29.507 According to archeological data this tradition goes back to high antiquity. 00:23:31.168 --> 00:23:39.974 A long piece of width was sewed on its back, and it hang down along a back. 00:23:44.158 --> 00:23:46.681 Belts were not used. 00:23:46.749 --> 00:23:53.601 Along wide dress was tucked up on hips behind a waistband of pants. 00:23:53.601 --> 00:24:02.407 Over chukhta they wore a large white overlay. 00:24:31.342 --> 00:24:42.502 In Tlarata women wore a coif entirely covered by fancy work and ornamentals silver chainlets and tubes. 00:24:42.502 --> 00:24:49.447 Over a coif they put on a wrap, shawl or veil. 00:24:58.183 --> 00:25:08.389 On feet there were inwrought boots knitted of thick wool threads. 00:25:08.389 --> 00:25:10.904 Boots had toes sharply bended inside. 00:25:31.209 --> 00:25:48.137 This is one of possible variants of woman wear from village Tsunta. 00:25:57.827 --> 00:26:12.709 You have seen Dagestan woman dresses of 19-20 centuries 00:26:13.755 --> 00:26:18.716 but even till now when there is a happy holiday, 00:26:18.716 --> 00:26:26.753 they open ancient granny’s dower chests, 00:26:26.753 --> 00:26:37.005 and unique traditional wear of Dagestan Mountains, 00:26:37.021 --> 00:26:42.966 never forgotten by its people, 00:26:42.966 --> 00:26:46.873 goes out.