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Alkaruša
Museum Alka of Sinj
Sinj, Croatia
The Split Ethnographic Museum keeps an example of a women's folk costume from Sinj, popularly called Alkaruša. It is believed that this is a unique example of a women's clothing set made and worn on the occasion of the arrival of the Austrian Emperor and King Francis I in Sinj in 1818, but also on the occasion of the approaching wedding of the owner Lucija Brajinović.
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- Title: Alkaruša
- Location Created: Sinj, Croatia
- Subject Keywords: costume
- Rights: The Alka of Sinj Museum
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