Various techniques are used by the Yomud groups. Their highly ornate jewelry features blue and red glass beads and silver gilt.
Similar to one seen in the Ghysels collection, World of necklaces book an pages 186/7.
Related to the Turkmen and Tekke. Iranian Turkmens like the Yomud have for a long time represented a group of semi-nomadic tribes who retained a more traditional way and are found living along the northern edges of Iran, just south of the Turkmenistan border. For centuries the Turkmen lived as nomadic herdsmen.
4 1/4: in height x 4" width x 1/2" depth.
