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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The lower one looks like part of an ottoman headpiece.
Thanx patti,
yess the bottom disc is very ottoman, and similar to the headpieces i have seen before,
the upper pendant is still a mystery, looks like a central asian adornment!
The top piece is lovely. It looks like Uzbek or South Asian filigree-style work, but the overall shape looks very indonesian. I'd guess Subcontinent though.
Oh Toya very clever!!
Indeed the top piece remind me of some weirdly shaped indonesian pieces!!
Thanx
The top one to me looks like it is silver verson of what I'm used to seeing in gold from Indonesia. Looks Aceh to me from Sumatra.
I really love the piece below.. would love to wear that one! Have no clue. During this time many pieces look so similar. Polish, Hungarian even some Albanian Turkish could be even Spanish culture. Might come across it some day and get back to you!
The top piece is definitely Indonesian, and better known in gold. This type is at least as likely to come from the Bugis in South Sulawesi, where in their recent important book *Gold Jewellery of the Indonesian Archipelago* Anne Richter and Bruce Carpenter place it (p. 226, and see also earrings on p. 224), as from the Aceh in Sumatra. The heart-shaped form has apparently often been identified as stylised leaves of the breadfruit tree and thought of as going back to Malacca in the 14th c. Richter and Carpenter do also show, admittedly, a not unrelated piece of jewellery on p. 447 as Aceh, but - referring back to p. 224 - point out that the similarity (such as it is) may be due to the fact that the last dynasty in Aceh was Bugis; they suggest that, indeed, a Bugis smith may have made the piece on p. 447. There are, I should add, definite resemblances between some Bugis pieces and those made in Aceh (or for that matter even elsewhere in Sumatra).
As for the piece at the bottom, I too like it, but cannot - at least not now! - place that. I have a feeling that the gold (?) tips may provide an indication, but shall try to bear the piece in mind as I look at others. Alas, my memory is not nearly as good as Linda's or Truus's! But I shall do my best.