The Daalder Collection of Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment, after 2007
Uyghur Earrings from China

Uyghur Earrings from China

The Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group from Eastern and Central Asia; today, Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, as a recognized minority group in that country. Continue Reading

Mamuli from Indonesia

Mamuli from Indonesia

Sumba’s ruling class amassed gold by trading horses with European colonists. Mamuli, made in the shape of the female genitalia, are part of the elaborate exchange of gifts before a wedding. When Sumbanese women elongated their ear lobes, they wore mamuli as earrings. Today, they are mostly worn as pendants. Men also occasionally wore mamuli.… Continue Reading

Turkoman Amulet (Tumar)

Turkoman Amulet (Tumar)

The piece is comparatively recent but stays acceptably within the parameters of a tumar, as this Turkoman amulet is called. Its size is remarkable: 44cm wide. It is somewhat of a show piece, or at least unlikely to have been worn by a single woman, as a more frequent small tumar normally was. Some say… Continue Reading

Silver Bangle from India

Silver Bangle from India

This silver bangle from Madras (Chennai) or Tamil Nadu, India, is intended to be worn by a married woman and to enhance fertility through the phallic symbols surrounding the basic circle. Continue Reading

Necklace, Sri Lanka

Necklace, Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan silversmiths’ refined aesthetic and skilled workmanship produced necklaces and other pieces that resembled those from South India and Indonesia. Continue Reading

Turkoman Disk

Turkoman Disk

This Turkoman disk was collected in Persia, namely in Gonbad-e-Kabus, which is situated in Golestan near the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea and in the heart of Yomud territory. If you look at the back, the piece has four places for attachment, so the ornament could have been made for the bridle of a… Continue Reading