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Sakha Yakut Silver Breastplate

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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.

Learn more about the Sakha Yakut Silver Breastplate style

  • OriginSakha (Yakutia), Siberia
  • PeriodTraditional Siberian silversmithing (documented via P. A. Oyunsky, early–mid 20th c.)
  • DesignerYakut niello silversmiths · P. A. Oyunsky
  • MovementsSakha silver-adornment craft · Ilin kebiher chest-plate tradition · Niello and champlevé enamel work

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