This Malay necklace, known as ‘dokoh’, is an example of the distinctive jewellery of Pattani Kelantan and Terengganu as it is made of ‘suasa’. Suasa is an alloy of gold, silver and copper that has a distinctive reddish colour. This necklace consists of a central pendant and four additional small pendants, which are arranged together on a chain. The central gold pendant is rectangular and has a central arrangement of precious stones surrounded in wire filigree decorations. The two coin-like ornaments, decorated with wire filigree and attached to the chain, mostly likely functioned as or were symbolic of protective amulets. Dokoh are usually made as charms or amulets to protect the wearer.
