Large Augmented Rare Kiffa Bead faceted Each bead is 4

Each bead is 4

Set of nine high-silver content beads from India

7mm long x 7mm wide with 1mm hole

8" strand of very cool and rootbeer tourmaline pendants

Antique silver pendant from India featuring an unidentified Hindu god

Large Augmented Rare Kiffa Bead faceted Each bead is 4This 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