Iyrshet - woman's folk headdress of the urmurts

The work by N.I. Shutova is devoted to the Udmurt folk headdress worn by women in the late 17th - early 20th cc. and known as iyrshet. The author pays special attention to the parallels between the archaeological finds from the cemeteries of the 17th - 18th cc., and ethnographic materials. The discussed type of headdress was worn by young married women after birth of the first child. Special ritual was celebrated in the period of field works, when the headdress was put on the woman.