Ethnic Mongolian jewellery
Ethnic Mongolian jewellery
Ethnic ornaments of different nations of the world have long attracted a man with ideas and beauty. Natural environment has been the greatest inspiration either for ancient man, or for the best designers of our time. People from ancient times try to frame their appearance, enhance the beauty and stand out in a socially with the help of beautiful bright decorations. Among these decorations can be distinguished the unique ethnic jewelry ornaments peculiar to a particular ethnic group.
Mongolia has a rich history, many nationalities, and centuries-old artistic traditions. Accordingly, the women of these nationalities have their own characteristic decorations, and the most impressive of them are headdress called Khalkha.
Noteworthy, the main element of this piece – a special hairstyle, which resembles horns or wings of the mythical bird Hangarudi, stacked with silver hairpins. The basis is also a cap of pure silver decorated with coral, pearls, and turquoise. TTraditionally, rich women covered braid with special cover with sewn on them silver plates with filigree ornaments and splashes of pearls, coral and turquoise.
Called “suyh”, most of earrings are long, made of silver, red gold, decorated with turquoise, coral and pearls. Rings and bracelets are also made of gold and silver with engraved patterns, sometimes enamels. In fact, a full set of ornaments of Mongolian women could be 5-6 kilograms.