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  SARAH CORBETT April 30, 2011 at 9:03pm

  set of 19 rare matched jewish pendants in the form of a pidgeons foot
  circa 1920
  2 cm long each
  £70
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  Stefany Tomalin May 9, 2011 at 3:57pm

  can you tell us what makes these particularly jewish?
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  SARAH CORBETT May 9, 2011 at 3:59pm

  These are typically found along the lower edge of headresses of Jewish Moroccan origin.

  I shall post an image of one.

  Warm wishes

  Sarah

   
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  SARAH CORBETT May 9, 2011 at 4:05pm

  https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/for-stefany?context=latest

   

  link
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  Alaa eddine SAGID May 9, 2011 at 5:26pm

  In daddes valley south est morocco they call them "TYOUR" wich means "birds" and higher in the mountains and in berber areas they call them "adar n'utbir" wich means "doves' feets"

   

  They were heavily used in jewish jewellery int those areas but were also used by muslim women!

   

  For my understanding this is a rather very old design that was brought to south east morocco by jewish migrations in the early first millenia of our modern era, when jews from libyan coast were expelled by roman exactions wich led them to seek refuge and foray deep into the desert eventually reaching the oases of south algeria and south morocco

   

  We can still find bigger pendants reminescent of this shape, being used in south tunisia, libya and siwa oasis in egypt
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  Ethnic Embellishments May 9, 2011 at 5:56pm

  Is there any truth to this story: This design was taken to Al Andalus, Spain, by the Muslims. It was adopted by the Iberian Christians and used as a decoration on halters for horses. Then it was exported to the new world and incorporated back into jewelry by the Navajo in particular (who called it "naja"), where it was featured as a center piece on necklaces of the squash blossom type.
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  Alaa eddine SAGID May 9, 2011 at 6:18pm

  THIS COULD BE VERY TRUE!

   

  my understanding is that there are many things to be searched related to the arabo_berbere influences wich traveled to the new world through the spanish conquest