Photograph of Kemal Damdelen and Ahmet Behlül no 15

Gender information of the object: 
Male
Color: 
Black and white
Author: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Type: 
Photograph
Primary Material: 
Paper
Place: 
The Aziz Damdelen Collection Kioneli (Gönneli)
Source: 
The Aziz Damdelen Collection, Kioneli (Gönneli) Kioneli (Gönyeli), Nicosia District. Turkish Cypriots in this village originated from Konya, they lived in a restricted way and did not have many contacts with the Greek Cypriots.
Code: 
76
Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description: 
Photograph of two boys, from left to right, Kemal Damdelen and Ahmet Behlül (Arap Ahmet), taken about 1920. Street photograph by an unknown photographer. The boys are similarly dressed in white gömlek (shirt) and dizlik (knee-breeches), with tarabulus guşak (sash, turk. trablus kuşak) around the waist; Kemal seems to wear a dark guşak (sash, turk. kuşak) over the tarabulus guşak (The silk polychrome guşak (sash) around his waist was imported from Tripoli (tarab­lus guşak turk. trablus kuşak), also knitted çorap (stockings) with ‘snake bone’ (yılan kemiği) patterns. The smaller boy, Ahmet, wears plain stockings of light colour. Both have their stockings tied under the knees with strings, probably ending in pompons. Their kuntura (shoes) are flat; those of Kemal are black and decorated with a flower buckle. On the head Kemal wears a high fes (fez) and Ahmet a lower fes (fez), both decorated with a twisted yemeni (headscarf) with handmade lace. This was the usual Turkish Cypriot dress of the time.
Bibliography: 

Rizopoulou - Egoumenidou, E. and Aziz Damdelen, 2012, Turkish Cypriot dress The Aziz Damdelen Collection, Nicosia, 127.