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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Beautiful piece - I don't think I've ever seen such a large Boghdad cross yet...Great find.
I know, and it was on my stand for 5 minutes and it was sold immediately! I just managed to get a photo of it before it left me!
This is great, I would have snapped this up quickly as well!
Its a lovely piece Cordelia, not surprised it was snapped up, usually things like that are. Well done
I would take it for a Berber cross, Tuareg crosses do not have These fancy additions on it (the parts Standing out), even though the drawings on it look Tuareg. Or it is a hybrid. It could be Mauritanian (Moorish) or from the Southern Moroccon oasis. This type is usually called Boghdad, and this one is a very impressive, beautiful one.
Yes, thanks Eva, I did wonder whether it was more Berber than Tuareg actually.
Actually these very peculiar cross style, often of big scale do come from the fulani and sarakole people, often mixed races living in close vicinity of the moors nomads as is the case in Mali near the mauritanian border
Fabulous piece!
there is a very vast array of cross shapes across the western half of sahara/sahel with a very obvious concentration in and around Mauritania or ethnic-wise, heavily related to the Moors
It is adopted by the moor nomads themselves, the northern harratine oases dwellers as well as some sedentary berber tribes in south morocco, the sahel pastoralists but also the sahel country dwellers (low scale agriculture and traders)!
It is a very interesting pattern: either an original moorish design comparable to the tuareg "cross" ( Moors are very close relatives of the tuaregs!!) or maybe an old heritage of the once thriving Ghana empire which ruled over exact land in which local wearer nowadays live!!
yes, but it is its size that I find unusual, do you not think?
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