By Hossein Noruzi, Iman Zakariai Kermani
ABSTRACT
One way to understand the culture of the people is to recognize used concepts in arts and especially their
artifacts. These concepts represent in appearances and motifs of these relics. Turkmen are tribes who have
used several designs in decorating their arts and crafts. Turkmen women jewelry is considered as
remarkable art of this tribe and it not only includes special visual properties but also drawings with broad
concepts. The aim of this study is to recognize motifs and the used concepts in Turkmen women jewelry
based on finding the roots of motifs in Turkmen culture. Accordingly, based on library data and descriptive
– analytical and anthropological approaches, the research is going to answer this question that which
concepts are existed in the used motifs of Turkmen women jewelry and to what extent it originates from the
culture and beliefs of the people? The results of eighty remarkable samples of this art indicate that myths,
beliefs, nature and environment of the people and the characteristics of Islamic art are among items which
affect the concepts of these motifs as myths and beliefs of this tribe have played a considerable role in
creating these motifs.
