Sumatra, Minankabau, Payakumbu District, a pair of golden bracelets, ca. 1900, The bracelet in three facets with fine meandering and floral patterns inlayed with rubies and glass stones. Made form two gold sheats with a tamarind filling and at the end a tapering ridge. This very fine gold bracelet is from the matrilineal Minangkabau people of West Sumatra. Being matrilineal whereby inheritance and wealth passed from daughter to daughter, by-passing sons, meant that gold jewellery, as a convenient and portable store of wealth, took on even more importance than being merely decorative. German Private Collection. Ref. A.J. Summerfield, Walk in Splendor, UCLA Fowler Museum, 1999, p. 274 and A. Richter, The Jewelry of Southeast-Asia, London 2000, p. 197 nr. 211. [2] diam. 10 and 9,5 cm. Weight 197 and 182 grams.
Sumatra, Minankabau, Payakumbu District, a pair of golden bracelets, ca. 1900, The bracelet in three facets with fine meandering and floral patterns inlayed with rubies and glass stones. Made form two gold sheats with a tamarind filling and at the end a tapering ridge. This very fine gold bracelet is from the matrilineal Minangkabau people of West Sumatra. Being matrilineal whereby inheritance and wealth passed from daughter to daughter, by-passing sons, meant that gold jewellery, as a convenient and portable store of wealth, took on even more importance than being merely decorative. German Private Collection. Ref. A.J. Summerfield, Walk in Splendor, UCLA Fowler Museum, 1999, p. 274 and A. Richter, The Jewelry of Southeast-Asia, London 2000, p. 197 nr. 211. [2] diam. 10 and 9,5 cm. Weight 197 and 182 grams.
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