QADIYA is an independent, noncommercial community project: an archive of Palestine’s history, built for the cause and open to everyone.
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A small square cap fitted to the head, often embroidered in silk with fringes hanging at its sides and sewn with silver and gold coins that were a married woman’s dowry, worn on her head. Women wore it across Palestine under Ottoman and British rule until the mid-twentieth century; its shape and name changed with the region: wiqa, ‘iraqiyya, saffa, shatwa, samada.
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Palestine · supports · section: “This type of headscarf was used by women in Palestine during the Ottoman and British Mandate periods, up until the mid-20th century.”
Evidence version: mota-vm-womens-hat-taqiyya:v1
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