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Mauritanian beads - how were these worn?

Posted by Preethi on June 2, 2014 at 6:51pm

I got most of these in Marrakech recently and 5-6 of them from Roger Casas. Would any of you have information on how these were worn?

Comments

ingrid Langerak June 2, 2014 at 7:18pm

What a beautiful and interesting collection. I cannot help you unfortunately. Gr. Ingrid
SARAH CORBETT June 2, 2014 at 7:59pm
SARAH CORBETT June 2, 2014 at 7:59pm

not sure why it appeared on the side!
SARAH CORBETT June 2, 2014 at 8:02pm

Hey Preethi, I am in the process of placing all of the Maure and poss Malian pieces by location, origin etc and trying to categorise the different styles of aggrabs... I wonder how you may feel about dontating pics of your pieces to the research....

Same shout goes out to you all...please let me have images ( as good as poss so that i can use them in a piece please ) of pieces which you may have from these regions

Thanks a million S x
SARAH CORBETT June 2, 2014 at 8:04pm
SARAH CORBETT June 2, 2014 at 8:05pm

I have this piece ...so glad i worked out what it was!
SARAH CORBETT June 2, 2014 at 8:07pm
SARAH CORBETT June 2, 2014 at 8:08pm
SARAH CORBETT June 2, 2014 at 8:10pm

also thought that you would love to see these...from Timbuktoo!! S x
ingrid Langerak June 2, 2014 at 8:24pm

What a charming way of wearing these treasures. Rather sufisticated really. I like it a lot.

You must have a very elaborate library Sarah. Lucky for us. Gr. Ingrid