Haik (clothing)
The Haik ( Arabic الحايك) is an item of clothing worn as a shawl or veil for women and men from the Maghreb .
It consists of a 6 x 2.20 m white cotton cloth that covers the head, shoulders and upper body and sometimes falls elegantly to the side to the floor. Sometimes haiks were also adorned with geometric-abstract motifs such as triangles, diamonds or combs.
Kabyle Haikträgerin in the 19th century
Woman from Morocco in a Haïk, around 1900
Haik from Morocco ( LACMA )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ambroise Queffélec: Le français en Algérie. Lexique et dynamique des langues . Éditions Duculet, Bruxelles 2002, p. 343, ISBN 2-8011-1294-1 .