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Made in Mali and Mauritania
22" strand of large funky brick red
With smooth solid silver backing
Convex 11mm domed shape with floral ornament with a 7mm bail
Venetian-made in the early 1800s
Large Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead banded agate Made in Mali and MauritaniaThis 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 (the
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