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Huge tiznit fibulas and chaine with enameled egg

Posted by Alaa eddine SAGID on May 20, 2011 at 4:58pm

This is one of the biggest fibulas to have ever been made in north africa, they measue 32cm. Usually they were worn by Tiznit area dancers and singers wich used to perform publicly in front of men. traditionnally women would link them with only a couloured silk thread but here a wonderfully enameled flat chain and egg was used

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