Photograph of Kemal Mustafa Damdelen and Ahmet no. 040

Gender information of the object: 
Author: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Type: 
Primary Material: 
Source: 
The Aziz Damdelen Collection, Kioneli (Gönneli) Ali N. Güran.
Code: 
192
Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description: 
Street photograph taken by an unknown photographer in 1940. It shows Kemal Mustafa Damdelen (born in 1912, died in 1964) and Ahmet, from Kiados (Çatoz), in Mesaoria. Kemal wears a cotton shirt woven on the loom and an English cashmere jacket, silk sash (tarabulus kuşak), blue broadcloth breeches (çuha şalvar) with the traditional applied decoration on both sides, hand-knitted stockings (Temroz çorabı), with patterns, black elastic-sided ankle boots with white leg upper parts (gonç, namely the part of the boot that comes up to the ankle). Ahmet wears black baggy trousers similar to vráka (şalvar), a red woollen loom-woven sash around the waist, and black knee boots (kuntura çizmesi) tied under the knees with strings (çizme bağı) made of goat hair.  
Bibliography: 

Rizopoulou - Egoumenidou, E. and Aziz Damdelen, 2012, Turkish Cypriot dress The Aziz Damdelen Collection, Nicosia, 154.