Saddle skirts are part of a riding horse harness.

Yakuts

Yakut Oblast

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Cloth: cotton velvet; cloth: cloth; cloth: cotton; leather: natural leather: suede: skin suede; glass (glass beads); glass (beads); metal

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They are trapezoidal deer suede lappets covered with red and black cloth and connected by two leather belts. Decorated with a lyre-shaped pattern embroidered with beads. In the top part of each saddle skirt is a slit where the girth straps are passed through. The saddle skirts were put on under the saddle, to make a set of a riding horse festive outfit together with the saddle blanket. Abstract by M.V. Fedorova