A digital archive showcasing the extensive collection of jewellery and adornment images shared on the former Ethnic Jewels Ning site over the years. These images have significantly enriched discussions on cultural adornment and its global dispersion.
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These are really wonderful. Where are they from?
I am awestruck. I am crazy about carved carnelian.
Toya & Anna...I found these in a very unassuming dusty little shop in Chaing Mai Thailand recently from a lovely gentle old man whose English was not very good. I bought a lot of old Naga beads from him and gleaned that a lot of his stock comes from a trader in Burma so I think they may have come from India (?). The moment I saw them my heart stopped and knew I simply must have them!!!
I can see why. Carnelian, especially etched or carved, will do that. I recall the day I was going through a small bowl filled with ancient beads from Iran that my husband had brought back from an Iranian dealer in New York. I picked up a rectangular bead of good size and felt some very worn incising on each face of the stone. I took it to the window to examine it and found that it was a seal designed not as a cylinder but with a separate image on each panel of the bead. I was so thrilled!