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jast002 Hmong Golden Triangle Northern Thailand Hook earrings Coin silver 4.5 inches long X 2.25 wide X 1 inch deep. 80 grams combined. Very good. Tarnished A very large pair of hook style earring that used to be worn by Hmong woman of northern Thailand/ Golden Triangle area. They would be sometimes suspended by a chain attached to a headdress or looped through the ear and worn as an earring. According to P.& E. Lewis in their book Peoples of the Golden Triangle, at the time of their writing, 1984, this style of earring was “rare”. |