• Antique Hmong silver earrings
  • Antique Hmong silver earrings
  • Antique silver earrings Hmong, Thailand
  • Antique silver earrings Hmong, Thailand
  • Antique silver earrings Hmong, Thailand
  • Antique silver earrings Hmong, Thailand

Antique Silver Hook Earrings from the Hmong People, Northern Thailand

A very large pair of hook style earring that used to be worn by Hmong woman of Golden Triangle area. They would be sometimes suspended by a chain from 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, in 1984 this style of earring was considered “rare”.

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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”.
Handmade of coin silver, the large hook is attached to a central bead that is decorated at the join point. From the bottom of the bead silver wire is coiled around the bead and drops down for 1.5 inches to make a cone shape. The very tip of one earring the coiling had come loose but has since then had a native repair to secure it