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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9615760, member: 2844"]It is a Turkmen pendant. It could be Tekke, but I am not entirely sure. The Tekke are the largest Turkmen group, but there are other Turkmen groups as well. I would just call it Turkmen.</p><p>This type of pendant is called "gonjik", and it is worn as a diamond shape on the chest for protection. Gonjiks were either sewn on a coat type dress or worn on a chain.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it is worn as a diamond shape, with the corners north-south and east-west. That means that the chain has to be attached with both ends to the north corner only.</p><p>The chain is of the type used in Central Asia, so it is probably original, only attached the wrong way.</p><p>The south corner had a dangle and the east-west corners either had dangles or smaller support chains that were attached to the main chain. I think they had dangles, otherwise there would be only one dangle, a bit meagre for Turkmen jewellery.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Below are gonjiks from a dead link. These are Ersari Turkmen, which yours isn't, but the orientation and the type of dangles are similar to the ones yours originally had:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]469044[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9615760, member: 2844"]It is a Turkmen pendant. It could be Tekke, but I am not entirely sure. The Tekke are the largest Turkmen group, but there are other Turkmen groups as well. I would just call it Turkmen. This type of pendant is called "gonjik", and it is worn as a diamond shape on the chest for protection. Gonjiks were either sewn on a coat type dress or worn on a chain. So it is worn as a diamond shape, with the corners north-south and east-west. That means that the chain has to be attached with both ends to the north corner only. The chain is of the type used in Central Asia, so it is probably original, only attached the wrong way. The south corner had a dangle and the east-west corners either had dangles or smaller support chains that were attached to the main chain. I think they had dangles, otherwise there would be only one dangle, a bit meagre for Turkmen jewellery.;) Below are gonjiks from a dead link. These are Ersari Turkmen, which yours isn't, but the orientation and the type of dangles are similar to the ones yours originally had: [ATTACH=full]469044[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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