The set of women’s festive accessories includes numerous items. Among them is a headband (nachelnik), a torc, neck, pectoral and back jewelry, a plait ornament, a belt with hip pendants, a pair of bracelets, earrings and rings. In addition, various silver amulets were sewn to the clothes: the solar circle “tuohahta” on headdresses, clasps, rhombus plates on coats “buuktaah son”, bells “kyabaka simege”, various shaped plaques on “bile” — the cloth fold of shoes.
The headdress of the bride was a “bastynga headband”. It was a four- or five- centimeters wide deerskin or leather band with sinewy threads sewn on it in several rows, as well as with metal plaques, seed beads and beads.
The first description of the headband was provided
in 1779 by Johann Gottlieb Georgi, the medical doctor, chemist, naturalist,
ethnographer and traveler,


