This traditional Ukrainian Flower crown was made using paper, foil, wax, and wire, and techniques such as cutting, and encaustic, which is hot wax painting. Crowns such as this one were worn by women of marital age to represent purity.
This oil folk painting on fabric by Jarmolenko Panas displays a young woman wearing a traditional “Vinok” flower crown. These crowns were worn by women of marital age to signify purity.
This necklace was crafted with a cotton thread and painted beads. It was believed that objects such as this had a positive effect on a woman's health and beauty.
This Ukrainian wedding flower crown is made of paper, cotton fabric, paraffin, and wire. It was created in 1956 in Osichki of the Podilsk Raion of the Odesa Oblast.
Found by the Southern Buh River near the village of Gordiivka, Trostyanets district, Vinnytsia Oblast at the Gordiiv mound site. Made during the late Bronze Age. The creator is believed to be of a foreign culture to the population.
A hoop shaped neck ornament, made up of twisted gold rods. Createated by the Sarmatian people and excavated from a 1st Century burial mount near Porohy in Vinnytsia Oblast. Torques of this kind were used as a monetary unit in Kyivan Rus'.
An image from Ivan Honchar's Historical Ethnographic Art Album, 'Ukraine and Ukrainians,' volume 'Poltava region.' Ivan Honchar Museum, https://honchar.org.ua/en/collections/detail/3070.