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  2. Gisuboran - Wikipedia

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    Bakhtiari People call this ritual "Pal Borun". "Pal" means "long hair" and "borun"(cognate with "boran" in Persian) means "cutting". They also have poems that they recite while performing this ceremony. [10] The Kurds of Iran and the Iranian Lors who are close to them, know this ritual by the name of "Chamar". The dead body is placed in a tent ...

  3. Persian clothing - Wikipedia

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    The design philosophy for ancient clothing was a marriage of both function and aesthetics. [1] Images of Persian clothing examples can be seen in ancient art and Persian miniature paintings. [2] Persian miniatures can employ both vivid and muted colors for clothing, although the colors of paint pigment often do not match the colors of dyes.

  4. Circassian beauty - Wikipedia

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    This hairstyle was a sort of exhibit's trademark and was achieved by washing the hair of women in beer, drying it, and then teasing it. [8] It is not clear why Barnum chose this hairstyle; it may have been a reference to the standard Circassian fur hat, rather than the hair.

  5. Persians - Wikipedia

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    They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language [6] [7] [8] as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian. [9] The ancient Persians were originally an ancient Iranian people who had migrated to the region of Persia or Persis (corresponding to the modern-day Iranian province of Fars) by the ...

  6. Category : Cultural depictions of ancient Persian people

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    Pages in category "Cultural depictions of ancient Persian people" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.

  7. Category:Ancient Persian people - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Ancient Persian people" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  8. Alans - Wikipedia

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    The ethnonym Alān is a dialectal variant of the Old Iranian *Aryāna, itself derived from the root arya-, meaning 'Aryan', the common self-designation of Indo-Iranian peoples. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 1 ] It probably came in use in the early history of the Alans for the purpose of uniting a heterogeneous group of tribes through the invocation of a ...

  9. Shami statue - Wikipedia

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    The man bears a short beard and a heavy moustache, while his hair is long and covers the ears. Around the head he wears a wide ribbon. He wears a tunic with a V-shaped opening at the front and wears trousers. Around the neck he wears a necklace, perhaps a metal ring. The left hand and the entire right arm are missing.