Russian traditional hat Kichka

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What is a “Kichka“?
Woman`s headwear meant striving upward to the gods in the sky. This was reflected in their “bird`s” names: “kokoshnik”(“Kokosh” – cock),”Kichka “- duck,” forty “.
Unmarried girls wore open headwear like bandage in the form of a tape (towel) with an open top called “Kichka molodukhi”