Ювелірне мистецтво кримських татар

Abstract

Production of jewellery, a kind of traditional art of the Crimean Tartar people, that developed and improved during the centuries, is under research in this article. Basing on documentary, photographic, oral materials as well as on a few existing nowadays samples, the author explores various kinds of jewellery: headdresses, temple pendants, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, and brooches. The article also informs of the jewellery production periods, their development, formation, and decline, as well as of the peculiarities of the goods by Tartar craftsmen, and the techniques they used. The author raises the problem of the revival of Tartar jewellery art.