Bracelet

Description

Bracelet - a traditional women’s silver ornament intended to be worn on the wrist. The museum object is made from a strip of white metal by forging and bending. It has the form of an open-ended hoop. The strip is nearly uniform in width and tapers slightly toward the ends. The outer surface is decorated with linear and plant-inspired motifs. Ball-shaped fastening elements were soldered to both ends to join and secure the bracelet. One element is preserved, while the other has broken off and is missing.
Open-ended bracelets of this type were worn by Kazakh women as everyday and decorative jewellery. The ball-shaped fastening elements helped join the ends and secure the bracelet on the wrist. Its forged, bent, soldered, and ornamented construction reflects traditional 20th-century silverworking and jewellery-making practices.
The museum object is an ethnographic source illustrating women’s adornment practices, the structural features of silver bracelets, and 20th-century jewellery traditions.