Coiffe Aux Turquoises Du Ladakh

Authentic perac headdress (alignment of turquoises). HeaddressZanskari, Nubra Valley,
Ethnic object in perfect condition.
I learned that this treasure was entrusted from mother to daughter, an obvious sign of belonging to an ethnic group and a sign of wealth.
In the east, among the nomadic herders of the Rusphu, it ends directly above the forehead in a silver ruler and is called gar leb.
In all these regions, the headdresses are complemented by two large black lambskin ear flaps to which the hair plaited in fine braids of the woman who wore them was once sewn. This astonishing addition would have been invented by a clever craftsman in order to protect from the cold and the flowing winds – in winter, the temperature can reach −25° – a queen of Ladakh who suffered from repeated ear infections. The latter, not wanting to appear ridiculous in society, would have imposed the wearing of the women of the court, and the use would have been perpetuated until our days. Whatever the truth of this anecdote, all women wear it today