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Country:
Yemen
Nation:
Yemeni Arabs or Jews
Male
This kind of shawl wiht a lot of pendants was created to be worn by respectable person in a village: most probably a Muslim priest or a Jewish rabbi. Ordinary villagers can only wear shawls without any decoration.The sharshaf may be put on the head (on top of the keffiya cap) or be put on shoulders. Yemen, Sana'a 20th cent.