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Ph. Simone Auricchio

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Bulgarian Kukeri, costumed Bulgarian men who perform traditional rituals and dances to scare away evil spirits.

Niger, 1953. From the book Nomades du soleil by Henry Brandt

Icon in the yard of a church in construction in Bucharest

source: Munich, BSB, Clm 19822, fol. 265r

Sven Hedin, a Swedish explorer, documented Zoroastrian Towers of Silence (dakhmas) near Tehran, Iran, around 1898. These circular, raised structures were used for excarnation, where bodies were exposed to vultures and the elements to avoid contaminating the earth.

Women's jewelry. Iran

“Magico”. Photographed by Blaise Reutersward for Amica January 1998

Birds,Orphans and fools,1969 by Juraj Jakubisko

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BL, Royal 18 A VI, fol. 34v

Rethymnon, Crete - Greece

Nostalghia by Tarkovsky (1983)

I would like to add that those tall and large headdresses, let alone the turbans, are often associated with Arabs and Turks. Actually, Byzantines (or Eastern Romans or Byzantine / Medieval Greeks) did wear such headdresses a lot, especialy during the late stage of the Byzantine empire. They occur very frequently in the sources. If you search in my blog with keywords like #byzantine empire or #historical fashion, you will find more such examples. Interestingly, Byzantines wore such sizeable headgear even before their wars and interactions with Arabs and Turks, however their headdress fashion definitely evolved by sharing and exchanging many elements with Persian, Arabic and Turkish fashion.