Among them is a bagrak – an ancient forehead adornment in the form of a strip of square silver plates connected by hinge square silver plates, earrings, bracelets, temporal adornments and tumors – cases for amulets. Tumors are made in the form of triangles, rectangles, polygons, cylindrical or oval boxes in Bukhara.
Tumors were meticulously finished with filigree, granulation or enamels, sometimes with cutthrough shabaka pattern. In the old days, women hid in a tumor a prayer-amulet inscribed on paper, which protected them from adversity. Their prototype was the cylindrical needle case, in which women kept sewing needles and wore them on their chests to always have them at hand.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Illustrated manuscripts from Mawarannahr in the collections of France" (Volume XXIX) in the series "The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan".
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