Diadems and bracelets

The collection of diadems and their fragments includes wide and narrow shapes made on ivory blades. Wide whole items are rounded and have a trapezoid or oval shape of edges. Narrow items have a "sharpened" shape of edges. 

The collection of bracelets includes narrow blades, volumetric hoops and ivory or boghead clips. A bracelet-clip is a rectangular-shaped concave blade with rounded edges. The creation of the items were made with different technological ways. 

The ornamentation of bracelets and diadems has traditional Mal'ta elements such as cupulas and straight lines. The type of ornamentations and forms can indicate different functions of items or their semantic meanings.  

Collection

Plate with the image of mammoth

A part of a composite diadem with the image of mammonth 

Fragment of the ornamented ivory bracelet

A fragement of ivory bracelet, decorated with "cupulas".

Diadem with "cupulas" ornament

A piece of a diadem with "cupulas" ornament

Diadem with rhombus

A fragment of an ivory diadem 

Bracelet

The bracelet is not closed

A fragment of a diadem

A fragment of a diadem with scratches and a hole

Bracelet with cupula's ornament

A blank of a bracelet with cupula's ornament

Fragment of bracelet

A fragment of a bracelet from the child's burial  

A part of a composite diadem

An ornamented ivory plate with holes

A part of a composite diadem

Ornamented ivory plate with holes

A fragment of a plate with "cupulas"

A fragment of a plate with two "cupulas". This is probably a fragment of a narrow bracelet.

A fragment of a bracelet blank

A fragment of a boghead bracelet blank

A fragment of a bracelet

A fragment of a bracelet made of boghead

A fragment of a bracelet

A fragment of a boghead bracelet 

Publications

Abramova Z.A. Paleoliticheskoe iskusstvo na territorii SSSR // SAI, vyp. A 4-3. M,- L.: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1963.

Gerasimov M.M. Paleoliticheskaya stoyanka Mal'ta // Sov. etnografiya, 1958. № 3, S.39-43 

Gerasimov M.M. Mal'ta. Paleoliticheskaya stoyanka (predvaritel'nye dannye): rezul'taty rabot 1928/29 g. – Irkutsk: Vlast' truda, 1931. — 34 S.

ZHdanova A.I  Ornamentika i forma mal'tinskih brasletov // Arheologiya: Materialy 57-j Mezhdunar. nauch. stud. konf. 14-19 aprelya 2019 g. /Novosib. gos. un-t. –Novosibirsk: IPC NGU, 2019, S. 23-24.

Volkov P.V., Lbova L.V. Mal'tinskie braslety iz bogheda // Materialy Godovoj sessii Instituta arheologii i etnografii SO RAN 2016. — Novosibirsk: Izd-vo Instituta arheologii i etnografii SO RAN, 2016. — S. 34-37

Lipnina E. A. Mal'tinskoe mestonahozhdenie paleoliticheskih kul'tur: dis. ... kand. ist. nauk. - Irkutsk, 2002.-. 313 S.