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very nice necklace! beautiful Display!
Thanks Eva - it was actually your and Ingrid's pictures that inspired me to use the Ethiopian coffee pot to display the necklace :-))
@thank you ! Good idea with the Ethiopian coffee pot! Besides, the light and the contrast are just fine here! Sometimes silver or silver metal things reflect the light very much and then one cannot see the structure ( I mean the details). this happened to me recently a few times... too much light for silver on photos is negative...). Here it is just fine.
Lovely pieces Betty, these are the bells of a Wollo wedding necklace (from the better type.) And the anklet beads looking good. How did you get such a large coffee pot back home in one piece, you must have protected it with your life. Well done.
Thanks Eva and Ingrid! The coffee pot is actually rather small, about 22cm in hight. I can't really remember how I transported it, but perhaps I had it in my hand luggage...:-))
Thanks Ingrid for confirming the origin of the necklace. Its dangles are also rather smallish - I have others of the same kind that are a lot bigger. Somehow I always attributed them to the Argobba people... (I am still drooling over the pics with your Argobba necklaces!). Anyway, this was a lucky find, you can say I got it for a song. And yes, some of the beads in this necklace are actually quite good silver, I think.
If you have also the larger bells they most probably are the Argobba ones. They are larger and heavier and the the lumps om the upper circle are standing on a stem as these ones are on top of a cone. Argobba jewellery are of a high silver contents. You know you were lucky because most of the Wollo ones on sale have nickel bells.
Betty I hope you have had the tradtional coffee ceremony in Ethiopia. It was my favorite passtime to sit around and get some of the arabbica coffee, freshly roasted while you sit around the lovely incence when the coffee has been brewed, the popcorn as a snack and of course the laughter and the small gossips.
Hope to have those experiences.
wonderful piece , congratulations.
yes, it looks wedding wollo. we can also recognise the wedding rings
ah this cofee can, it is so good to drink from. i had the chance to have a cup of cofee prepared from a famous ethiopian dancer ( nuria ) i admit that i m a cofee drinker but that one was one of my favorites. mmmm
Thanks Ait, and yes Ingrid, I have had the pleasure of attending quite a few coffee ceremonies, both in Ethiopia and Eritrea, but mostly here in Germany with Eritrean friends. And just like Ait, I am very fond of Ethiopian coffee! I have even tried to roast some green Arabica beans myself (with my own used the Jebena (the coffee pot) in the picture.
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