Ukok Earrings

The Ukok Plateau in the Altai Mountains is where archaeologists found the Ice Maiden, a Pazyryk woman buried 2,500 years ago with geometric jewelry featuring exactly this kind of structured triangle and hanging fringe. The Ukok earrings draw from that tradition: a triangular frame filled with horizontal bars sits rigid above five free-hanging strands that swing from its base, each terminating in a small stone drop.

At three inches, the fringe hits just below the jaw. They work against a turtleneck; the geometry reads clean against the fabric or with hair up so the strands have room to move. They're a piece for someone who reads the card on the museum wall, a dinner where the conversation goes somewhere interesting, or any day that calls for something with 2,500 years of design lineage on your ears.