A HMONG TRIBE SILVER PENDANT WITH FOXTAIL CHAIN NECKLACE
Possibly Laos or Thailand, South East Asia, first half 20th century

The trapezoid flat pendant incised with concentric fretwork bands of hatched line clusters, the cartouche in the middle with curved and ogival designs, ring-punched at the top, spraying two thick curved silver wires on the upper corners, folded backward and terminating into spiral designs, attached with two silver hoops to its original long foxtail chain necklace.

The pendant 7.5cm x 8.2cm, 48cm long including the chain

162gr.

For published parallels mainly worn by Hmong and Min, but also occasionally Akha people: Paul and Elaine Lewis, Peoples of the Golden Triangle: Six Tribes in Thailand, 1984, p. 56; and René van der Star, Ethnic Jewellery from Africa, Asia and Pacific Islands, 2008, p. 212.