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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 333846, member: 2844&quot;]Feast your turquoise loving eyes on this. Ladakhi heirloom jewellery, Himalayan turquoise, coral and copal.</p><p>Copal is half-fossilized tree resin, younger than amber, which is fully fossilized. It is the kind of &#039;amber&#039; you see in Himalayan and North African jewellery.</p><p>Ladakh is a region in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The population and culture are ethnically Tibetan. The landscape is bleak, but the dress certainly makes up for that.</p><p>Ladakhi women would be justified in saying: &quot;Oh, this old thing? I just threw something on.&quot;<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>From my favourite blogger, Jaina Mishra:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://wovensouls.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/20130902_ladakh_0302p-2-2.jpg?w=323" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The headdress is called perak.</p><p>More on:</p><p><a href="https://wovensouls.org/2014/04/30/a-ladakhi-lady-dons-her-heirloom-jewelry/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wovensouls.org/2014/04/30/a-ladakhi-lady-dons-her-heirloom-jewelry/" rel="nofollow">https://wovensouls.org/2014/04/30/a-ladakhi-lady-dons-her-heirloom-jewelry/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://wovensouls.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/20130902_ladakh_0287p-2-2.jpg?w=490" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Another perak:</p><p><img src="https://wovensouls.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/antique-ladakh-jewelry-090-s.jpg?w=547" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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