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Exhibition "Traditional Ways of Protecting Children Among Turkmen at the Turn of the 19th to 20th Century"

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19.05.2026 · 00:00
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Moscow
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The intimate project reveals the world of children's amulets as part of everyday culture and family care. Silver amulets, embroidery, cowrie shells, and archival images show how fears, beliefs, and crafts formed a system of protection. The exhibition addresses a theme where domestic history merges with the world of beliefs. The focus is on childhood in Turkmen tradition, where care for the child was expressed through nurturing and a system of symbolic objects. Diseases and the lack of developed medicine forced families to seek protection in the familiar ways of their time. Triangular fabric dogas, beads, feathers, claws of birds and beasts, coins, mother-of-pearl buttons, silver amulet cases, and children's bracelets with bells were perceived as barriers against the evil eye. Even color, braid, fringe, and ornamentation on clothing became part of the protective code. Among the exhibits are items from the museum's collection, many of which have not been shown to the public before. Items for infants, takhya skullcaps, jewelry, and amulets provide an opportunity to view the rare collection not as a set of ethnographic details, but as a story of family worries and tenderness. An additional layer is created by graphic sheets of Reingold Papa and digital copies of old photographs. They help to see the amulets in a living context - alongside children's faces, costumes, and everyday gestures. If you don't know where to walk in Moscow, visit KUDAGO.

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