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Children’s chokha

Creation period
Beginning of the XX century
Technique
Sewing, weaving, woolen cloth
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Children’s chokha
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The children’s chokha (tsyy) in this exhibition looks exactly like the traditional clothes of adult Adyghe men, but is much smaller in size. The Circassian used to bring up their boys as warriors, and that is why they, from a very young age, had to get used to genuine men’s clothes and its essential attributes: cases for bullets, daggers, etc.

Circassian men’s national clothes were rather conservative. No decorations were allowed on them; the chokhas looked like military uniform. The Circassian men wore them all the time: at home, at work, in military campaigns and even on festive days.
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Сorrespondent of the English newspaper The Times J.A. Longworth, who came to Circassia in 1839 and spent about a year there, wrote:
‘But the circumstance which particularly deserves attention is, the very uniform character of their costume, not only in the tout ensemble, but in its most trifling details and adjustment, which, while giving them the appearance of one family, are the outward signs of the congeniality of sentiments and customs which makes them so in reality’.
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The shabbier a chokha was, the more respected was its owner. Baron and Major General Karl Staal, in his Ethnographic Review of the Circassian People, noted:
’…Wearing shabby clothes is not in the least shameful, neither for the rich nor for the poor. The neglect for dandyism is even seen as an attribute of a genuine chevalier’.
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The new chokha profusely decorated with galloons (bands made from golden threads) did not produce a good impression upon the Adyghes, regardless of the fact that many travelers called Circassian national clothes the finest and most elegant clothes in the Caucasus. 
 
Famous Adyghe writer Khan Girey wrote: It should be noted that excessively sumptuous clothes is seen by the Circassians as something to be frowned upon, so they try to show off their good taste rather than their clothes.

Traditional chokhas were mostly made from homespun cloth. That is why their colors are the same as natural shades of wool: black, grey or brown. To create colored chokhas, artisans used various natural colorants. White chokhas were rare: they could only be worn by Adyghe princes, and only on festive days.
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Children’s chokha

Creation period
Beginning of the XX century
Technique
Sewing, weaving, woolen cloth
9
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