Indian Plaque Amulet Depicting Sapta Matrikas or Seven Sisters

Seven tiny figures stand in a row, framed by enough filigree for seventy.

This plaque amulet depicting Sapta Matrikas, or Seven Sisters, is Hindu, from Rajasthan, India, in coin silver. The Sapta Matrikas are a group of seven mother goddesses widely venerated in India, and in Rajasthan they are often represented in folk amulets as a simple row of standing figures. Here seven stylized figures with feathered bodies line up in a central panel. Around them, a deep border of looping filigree figure eights is studded with small flower bosses. Four loops rise along the top edge for stringing. It is 3 inches long and 2.75 high.

Seven sisters, and not one of them out of line.