The Museum of Islamic Art of Malaysia houses several headdresses imported from Uzbekistan. These exhibits, consisting of an ash mattress, pendants and a hat with tassels, and four skullcaps, date back to the 19th century. The headwear was purchased by the museum between 2000 and 2002.
Kulto'shak - a soft round cap with a bra. The braid was lowered, covering the long hair of young women from the back.
Unlike a regular ash mattress, the braid is more modestly decorated with embroidery. A border is sewn along the edges up to the nape of the head. The embroidered ram's horn decorates the lower part of the braid. The lower two strands of the braid are connected by a green hair strap, which is made so that the hair covered with this braid does not spread on the back. The ash covering is covered with red printed cotton fabric.
Shokila and poppy alaka are an integral part of the saukele - the headwear worn by Karakalpak women at ceremonies (weddings). This cap is made of semi-silk adras fabric. The chin strap of the cap, made of velvet fabric, is decorated with beads of coral, pearls, turquoise-studded pendants, and coin-shaped discs. A dark red silk mesh is attached to the strap passing under the chin. On the back of the cap, a silk ribbon, adorned with two embroideries, was sewn with a alaqa and many tassels of different colors.
The doppi (skullcap) has become an integral part of the Uzbek way of life and is the main type of headwear. The museum's collection contains four skullcaps of various shapes, more precisely round, rectangular, and slightly conical. They are decorated with Islamic, zoomorphic, and geometric patterns.
The rest of the skullcaps in the collection belong to the Uzbek-Lakai culture. One of them is decorated with four large sequential motifs in the form of a curly horn. Perhaps they were used in place of amulets. The base of the skullcap is made of dark gray fabric and stitched with horizontal seams without cotton padding. The color scheme of the embroidery is red-creamish. The decorations are embroidered with a printed stitch, but the contours are embossed with chain stitches. The circumference of the skullcap is decorated with a border. The upper part of another skullcap is sewn with iroqi seam, but the kizagi is sewn in the style of piltadozi.
Bright colors and the style of felt embroidery are a distinctive feature of headwear produced in the southern regions of Uzbekistan, serving as a "visiting card".