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Saukele was given from mother to daughter, from generation to generation. According to custom, the bride was dressed in a wedding dress at her father’s house. Saukele was put on the bride by a respectable woman, for what she received an expensive present from bridegroom. After wedding the wife wore saukele for solemn occasions in the course of year, more exactly, until birth of first child.
Saukele (whole item and its separate parts), just as all Kazakh headdresses, has high semantic status. This way, ornamental images such as “tree of life”, “ram horns” and materials themselves carry large symbolical meaning. It was believed that silver has protective powers (arrow-shaped silver pendants make a whole bottom row of saukele). Magical functions of stones are widely known: coral saves from curse and evil eye, pearl – from walleye, cornelian – symbol of wellbeing and happiness, and so on.

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The frame of saukele was covered with cloth and sewed with the metal plaques of different configurations, in which the precious and semi-precious stones were inserted. The buckles were large and small. The small ones were fastened between the large ones.
The saukele was covered with silk or velvet scarves.
Saukele decorated with precious stones, pearls, corals and gold were incredibly beautiful, with golden tassels, covered with silk
This is simplified saukele, it has a solid framework in the form of a truncated cone, which is sheathed with brocade or enveloped with foil, and it should be decorated with gold and silver plaques with inserted gems.

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Researchers drew attention  to similarity of Kazakh saukele and Saka headdresses (it is the name for Scythians in Persian sources). There were tribes called “tigrahauda” (“wearing pointed hats”) among Sakas, who occupied vast territories of Middle Asia and Kazakhstan. Suppositions have confirmed when in 1970s Kazakh archeologists found an untouched burial place of Saka chief (V-IV cent. B.C.) whose clothes were covered with golden plates. There was a high (60-65 cm) headdress with golden decoration put on his head, and even superficial comparison with saukele indicates their similarity.

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The most skillful masters crafted it. Jewellers-zergers founded, pressed or minted metal parts. As a rule, making of one saukele took a whole year. Its price reached 1000 roubles (cost of about 100 good horses) by end of XIX – beginning of XX century, and sadly its expensiveness became a reason of reduction of saukele manufacturing. It is important that while keeping main elements, each of saukele has its own features as a result of individual work, availability of materials and other reasons. This way, each such headdress is a unique, inimitable artwork.

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During centuries the Kazakh national clothes was simple and rational. Leather, fur, thin felt, cloth were traditional materials, which Kazakhs made themselves

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Kazakh national clothes to be exhibited in 12 countries - Kazakh TV