Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Italy These are teardrop pendant shapes

These are teardrop pendant shapes

From the Ao tribe of the Nagaland state of India

This lovely coin silver pendant depicts Hanuman

small pendants: 17mm x 15mm with 2mm loops and solid silver backing

This is 1 gram of silver

Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Italy These are teardrop pendant shapesThis 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