Dagestan Rugs: Traditional Dagestani Dress

Portrait of a Dagestani Couple

A couple in traditional dress poses for a portrait in the mountainous interior region of Gunib on the north slope of the Caucasus Mountains in what is today the Dagestan Republic of the Russian Federation.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Dagestani Types, ca. 1907-1915.

Study of a Dagestani Man

Dagestan, meaning "land of mountains" in the Turkic languages, contains a population consisting of many nationalities, including Avars, Lezgi, Noghay, Kumuck, and Tabasarans. Pictured here is a Sunni Muslim man of undetermined nationality wearing traditional dress and headgear, with a sheathed dagger at his side.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Dagestan Types, ca. 1907-1915.

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J. Barry O'Connell Jr.