The silver collection of the Churapchinsky Museum of History and Ethnography named after the folklorist Andrey Andreyevich Savvin includes a pectoral or back pendant, “ilin-kalin kebiher”, which was created by the craftswoman Ulyana Efimovna Platonova — Uus Yldyaana in 1885–1887.

Ulyana Efimovna was called “Uus Yldyaana”, which translates from the Yakut language as “the master of all times and peoples”.

From an early age, Platonova began to practice goldsmithing and blacksmithing. Her teacher was a craftsman in gold finishing, who lived in the Boturussky ulus of Zhokhsogonsky settlement.

During her training Ulyana Efimovna learned the basics of casting and engraving techniques. She designed earrings, rings, pectorals and other jewelry, made icon platings and crosses, as well as scythes and various household items: utensils, horse harness and much more. She gradually mastered the technique of gilding and nielloing of metals.

Ulyana Platonova lost her son and was widowed at the age of 45. In the 1895 census, she was listed as a “housewife, cattle breeder and silversmith”. It is also stated there that Ulyana Efimovna brought up an eight-year-old boy named Dmitry. The craftswoman lived in the second Bolugursky settlement of the Boturussky ulus.

In terms of style, the works of Uus Yldyaana are highly decorative, bright, colorful, ornate and are notable for their precise shape and purity of lines.

The ornament displayed in the museum was made for Elizoveta Guryevna Popova, daughter of ulus head Gury Vasilievich Popov — Kuurei.

The pendant consists of a traditional neck torc “kyldyyy” with screw-shaped rifling, which is joined by a large openwork plate with numerous small S-shaped plates in ten rows. They form a wide system of chains, which ends in round patterned convex elements with descending coin-shaped and flat pendants of different shapes.

The rear chain suspension with tiered pendants is arranged according to the same principle. Its trapezoidal plate is engraved with the date of completion, 1887, and the initials of the customer’s daughter, “EP”.