felt, brown with sequin and gold cord decoration; lined with blue cotton; covers eyes and nose only ; 19.5 by 14.5 centimeters
Donor:
University Appropriation and William G. Lockwood
Collection place:
Planinica, Bugojno, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Culture or time period:
European
Collector:
William G. Lockwood
Collection date:
2/3/1968
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1968
Context of use:
worn by Muslim women to cover face in public places on dress up occasions as when traveling; was worn with a ferdiza (long embroidered coat of same material) and a sajaluk (white headscarf)
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)