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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  • here is a selection of pics which I have gathered but have no info for......any ideas??
  • I just saw this and he background reminds me of the area off of the main mechouar in Tiznit.

  • Public tailors and the lady looking towards the photographer is definetely a jewish lady and this could be somewhere around central morocco/ Atlantic plains

    HAirdress, little fibulas, the boy wearing a Makhzeni dress .

    Jewish ladies early learnt to work with sewing machine and my grand father who used to work during WWII in the casablanca american army base as a handyman used to bring back home jute bags and would hire a jewish woman to sew "gandouras / dresses" for little boys that wold sell easily for it was very hard to find any fabrics (food and other groceries) during the war.

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