Bride’s diadem - a popular form which was given by the bride’s mother to a bride. It survives in wedding jewellery and among dance costume. A floral piece of gilded metal shaped to follow along the line of the eyebrows. Decorated with flat metal pedants along the lower edge – on short chains with white beads; lined with inserts of turquoise and red glass or stone, along the upper edge and centre, with five ogival pieces rising from the edge – the central enlarged piece has an ornamental disc centrally with six streamers (of legs); the exposed metal is engraved with ornaments of leaves. With two tassels of black wool attached to each end; each tassel dividing into two at each end and bound with silver wire and yellow silk.
headdress (wedding adornment (ritual & belief: ritual persons paraphernalia))
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