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it's amazing to see beautiful girls enjoying parading their family's treasures.

her costume was exceptional in it's composition and and in the quality of every single piece. monumentally sized amulets with intricate and beautiful engravings and a beautifully proportioned set of coral and dzi necklaces make this one of the most beautiful khampa costumes i have seen

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Ornaments make up most of the life savings of many Khampa families, and so play an important role in Tibetan families' lives as well as in announcing the social status of the wearers. They are saved up for over many years and handed down for centuries from generation to generation within families. Until very recently, these families were nomadic and have to move every few months because of the snowy seasons in the Himalayas, so Khampas have always needed to store their wealth in portable form. So being unable to store wealth in the form of estates or houses or land or in a bank, for millenia wealth has been stored in art, precious fabrics, and particularly into ornaments.

Their culture is very conservative about the type of ornaments favored: for thousands of years jewelry made from amber, turquoise and coral have been worn because the stones are believed to hold spiritual power. Gold and silver and also naturally found in Tibet, and the use of these metals by the wealthy also goes back thousands of years. Their ornaments are very chunky, bold and colorful. While the gold earrings that Khampa women wear may have cost them a year or maybe several year's of their salary, ornaments carry so much social status in their society that probably didn't have to think twice about the purchase.

To the Khampa people these ornaments have the utmost sentimental value and significance, because they are the physical remnants of generations of their ancestors hard work or success. what these people are wearing is not just their life savings, but also their family history and treasure. this culture has been around for millenia - archeological finds from the 1st century AD in the khampa area unearthed ornaments that are essentially the same in design and materials as today's are. there are also beliefs that the stones provide good luck and protection to disease. dyed red coral is the most sought after stone, but interestingly tibet is very very far from any oceans - all the coral is imported by traders! Religious symbols from Tibetan Buddhism frequency form the designs of pieces, however archeological finds show that the role of ornaments in Tibetan society and peoples' lives long predate the arrival of Buddhism in Tibet. Indeed the beliefs of spiritual protection being provided by coral, amber and turquoise probably originate from the ancient shamanic Bon religion.

This ring was inspired by Medusa the beautiful woman who turned men to stone if they looked at her. She had snakes on her head otherwice she looked very attractive but she was evil. Finally Perseus menaged to kill her using a mirror shield to keep his eye on her instead of looking directly into the face. He cut her head off and used it as an armour as it still had the lethal power. Later he gave the head to Athena who fixed it on her shield. I find the story very impressive and symbolic.
The head of Medusa was often used in the ancient word on doors to keep away the evil.

In Italian and in Hungarian and probably in many other languages jellyfish is called "medusa". Probably because the look and the paralizing touch of it. I did not follow the traditional Medusa representations in my ring, it reather features a jellyfish.

I worked about three days on the ring's body: the patterns, the lining with the eye soldered into the band, the light chamber under the big stone and the fabricated elements. On the next day I started to prepare the mountings and in the evening I begun to set the stones. Then I accidently broke the collar of the ring... Next day I removed the stones and mountings and by the evening I was where I messed it up. Then I messed it up again! Yesterday I started to work on it again, and finally I finished it by today's morning with no sleep. The head of the Medusa is on my bench!!

The size of the ring is 6.5 (US). There is my eye mark on the inside of the band.
It weights 15.9 grams.
The diameter of the big garnet is 11 mm. The 4 small garnets on the moving collar of the ring head are 3 mm in diameter.
The hight of the piece from to bottom to the top of the stone is 37 mm.
The width is 58 mm.
The ring band is 5 mm wide.

Inspired from the pages of JRR Tolkien's immortal works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series comes The One Ring of Power TM, the Ruling Ring TM, Isildur's Bane TM. Skillfully crafted in solid sterling silver, each ring is carefully hand finished and individually inspected for the highest quality by the artist, Paul J. Badali. The ring is an officially licensed Lord of the Rings replica through Tolkien Enterprises. Each sterling silver One Ring TM is hand crafted, one at a time just for you. The ring is rounded inside and out like a comfort fit wedding band and available in US sizes 5 to 13, in whole and half sizes. Each ring measures as follows: Sizes 5 to 8.5 approximately 6.5 mm (1/4") top to bottom, Sizes 9 to 11 approximately 7 mm (just over 1/4") from top to bottom, and Sizes 11.5 and larger approximately 8 mm (5/16") from top to bottom. (The difference in the ring width is to create the most comfortable wear for your finger size.) The rings measure approximately 2 mm (just under 1/8") thick. Weight will vary with size, approximately 6.4 to 9.9 grams.