Kokoshnik
Costumes
Inventory number
2022.1.15.11.CO.ET.C1850.RUDescription
Russian headdress called "Poviazka" part of the Pomors female costume. Head gown in woven metallic and orange brocade embellished at the front with small artificial pearls and mother of pearls on metal folio and with a short ivory pearl beaded net border.Pomors or Pomory are an ethnographic group descended from Russian settlers, primarily from Veliky Novgorod, living on the White Sea coasts and the territory whose southern border lies on a watershed which separates the White Sea river basin from the basins of rivers that flow south.
Materials
BrocadeBeads
Pearl
Metal folio