A digital archive showcasing the extensive collection of jewellery and adornment images shared on the former Ethnic Jewels Ning site over the years. These images have significantly enriched discussions on cultural adornment and its global dispersion.

Asyk

very nice ornament with gilt silver logenges , carnelian Yomud 19th c
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  • have seen many of these here, but never one like this! Very special, very beautiful!

  • I like that - carrying what sets Yomud pieces apart, stylistically, to its logical extreme!

  • no I don't. this was sold in 04 and before that it belonged to some one who got it in the field in the 50's. who I was selling his estate for the inheritor. He had a whole collection of Turkoman which I mostly sold.

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