headdress

Two small circular decorations for top of a Uygur woman's headdress in black felt cone-shaped objects, each formed of 4 sections, possibly of leather, stitched together and covered in black woollen fabric. Flat tops covered with 4 triangular pieces of fabric containing woven decoration in metal sewn together. One has blue fabric, the other white.

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