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.
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Hello Linda, it is a MIAO hair pin
hi linda,am SURE it is a miao item
Do you know which group? I have in my Chinese Singapore museum book , they are listed and published as Dai Nationality. page 279
could u show me more pics?the style look like miao come from Qiannan guizhou
The book is Chinese Nationalities Costumes and Ornaments
same as above
maybe am wrong if i see some similar miao item,i will show u,thax for ur share
museums have been known to be wrong, but so far this is the only time i have seen these. I have many many books with hundreds of Miao groups and none that have this style associated with it.
Sorry Linda, I was wrong! Looking in my collection I have not listed I found this hair pin that I have bought in Yunnan and the label clearly indicates the ethnic Dai. There is a bigresemblance to Miao.
Well at least the museum got it right! Things from Yunnan are a bit different , less available also. I only found this pair and the other pair on many trips . There is way more Miao material on the market or was back then.
I am glad that this matter is now definitely cleared up for to me it looked sufficiently different from any of the Miao pieces I know (and there are many) not to have been made by them, The Miao did make ROUGHLY comparable pieces, but with several significant differences all the same. At first sight confusion is understandable, but not upon closer inspection. The piece is also considerably rarer than its Miao counterparts.