Today in Ulaan Baatar I explored the museums of this capital city in the land of Genghis Khan. There is a great museum of natural history that has one of the best displays of dinosaur bones in the world, including huge nests with eggs intact. Mongolia has a great deposit of dinosaur bones and paleological digs are going on constantly, especially in the Gobi.
My favorite museum was the Museum of History because of the beautiful samples of clothing worn by the different tribes of people in Mongolia. The most interesting are the hair decorations- the women would wear a metal filigree cap with matching hair clips that somehow keep the hair in flat waves flying out to the sides of the head. At the end of the “tails” are heavy-looking ornaments that encase the ends and hang several inches down. Attached to these are long lengths of embroidered silk that reach down to their knees. It is really amazing. Many of the ornaments are encrusted with red coral and turquoise.
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