Bracelet

Description

Bracelet - a traditional women’s silver ornament intended to be worn on the wrist. The museum object is made of silver of 500 fineness using forging and bending techniques. It has the form of an open-ended hoop with an approximately oval outline. The main body is thick and rounded in cross-section. Both ends gradually taper and terminate in rounded tips. The surface is undecorated, and the object’s ornamental character is expressed through its solid and restrained form.
Open-ended bracelets with a rounded cross-section were worn by Kazakh women as everyday and decorative jewellery. The tapered and rounded terminals made the bracelet easier to put on and remove. Its forged and bent construction reflects traditional 20th-century metalworking and jewellery-making practices.
The museum object is an ethnographic source illustrating women’s adornment practices, the tradition of producing undecorated silver bracelets of simple form, and 20th-century jewellery craftsmanship.