Large Rare Kiffa Bead tuareg tribe vintage coin silver amulets from

vintage coin silver amulets from India

though there is a small opening between her raised arm and her head

6mm hollow bead with 2-2

Antique coin silver bead

Could also have been used as a really short hair pin in old Chatelaine

Large Rare Kiffa Bead tuareg tribe vintage coin silver amulets fromThis very cool and magical bead was made in Kiffa, Mauritania. It is very old and was made as a female fertility charm, mainly by women artists. Historically, Kiffa beads are very important as its ancient technique (dating to 1000 years ago) made it one of the oldest glass bead making processes in Africa, which was purely African in origin. This bead is around 200 years old, possibly older, and it has been enhanced sometime in the early 1900s (spruced