About Sakha Yakut Silver Breastplate
The Sakha (Yakut) ilin kebiher is a heavy hand-hammered pure-silver breastplate — engraved and nielloed plates and looped chains built around a central sun-disc, worn against the dark elk-hide and blue-black winter garment of the Siberian cold. The signature is cold, cool-grey polished silver, not warm: clean shaman-silver hanging against a dark blue-grey ground.
This system distills that adornment tradition into digital form — a dark hide-and-garment page, cold pewter-to-highlight silver metal, near-black niello linework, and only the sparest touch of gild. The composition stays spare and vertical, like plates and tassels hung in disciplined rows.
- Origin
- Sakha (Yakutia), Siberia
- Era
- Traditional Siberian silversmithing (documented via P. A. Oyunsky, early–mid 20th c.)
- Key figures
- Yakut niello silversmiths · P. A. Oyunsky
- Movements
- Sakha silver-adornment craft · Ilin kebiher chest-plate tradition · Niello and champlevé enamel work
Sakha Yakut Silver Breastplate design spec
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