kalpaks

The effect, when a group of men all wearing kalpaks stood about talking, was of a miniature snowy mountain range.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

We seemed to bounce down the mountainside in no time, past walnuts, past apples and wild blackcurrant bushes, past mud barns and haystacks, half-hidden yurts in the trees, scampering turkeys and waving men in kalpaks, men stripping bark off poplar spars to make the rafters of a barn, schoolchildren dressed in white, all the way to the valley of the glistening Kork-Art whose wavelets galloped over its wide pebble bed.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

By now the sun was strong and warm, so I could only conclude that the thick felt kalpaks were intended to insulate heat out as well as in, along the same lines as the heavy woollen Berber djeleba of the Sahara.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

In every village, men stood about in kalpaks while the women laboured in the cotton fields.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The effect, when a group of men all wearing kalpaks stood about talking, was of a miniature snowy mountain range.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

We seemed to bounce down the mountainside in no time, past walnuts, past apples and wild blackcurrant bushes, past mud barns and haystacks, half-hidden yurts in the trees, scampering turkeys and waving men in kalpaks, men stripping bark off poplar spars to make the rafters of a barn, schoolchildren dressed in white, all the way to the valley of the glistening Kork-Art whose wavelets galloped over its wide pebble bed.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

By now the sun was strong and warm, so I could only conclude that the thick felt kalpaks were intended to insulate heat out as well as in, along the same lines as the heavy woollen Berber djeleba of the Sahara.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

In every village, men stood about in kalpaks while the women laboured in the cotton fields.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Mullahs read prayers for the dead to a crowd of roughly 250, including bearded elders in traditional pointed ak kalpaks (white hats), young men in baseball caps and women in headscarves.

EurasiaNet 2010