#georgian jews

Georgian Jew, 1870-1880s. Photographer: Yermakov D.I..

The man is wearing clothes traditional for the peoples of the Caucasus: short caftan girded with a sash, and chokha, a slim-fit cloth garment. On his head is a yarmulke (kippah). Over the kippah, the Caucasian Jews wore an astrakhan hat, i.e. a fur cap of Persian lamb skin of various shapes (they were low, tall, or conical depending on the local tradition).