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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for me,they look fom sahara/sahel region. could be mauritania,ethiopia,south egypt,soudan.
i have more tendance to mauritania,westsahara or sourh marocco
super work Tribal, it looks indeen realy yemeni. i was irritated from some samples from south regions. they have to be then from south yemen ( adan,almukatra until elhidaida ) the horn of africa.
you see the small round oatterns and zigzag ?? we dont see it in the yemeni jewelry from the midle and north yemen
definetely east africa, but as always yemen could be the original place from which the style spred.
A Somalian amber necklace from the Ghyssels collection has the same beads
I favour ethiopia
Eva, what do you think?
I go along with Ethiopia. They look like they might be from the city of Harar. There is a picture in "Africa Adorned" by Angela Fisher (p. 283) of a lady sporting a huge amber necklace interspersed with very similar beads.
I am very sorry, Tribal Heritage, I do not have a digitalised format of the picture at hand, but I'll see if I can find it somewhere on the web. But looking more closely at the text, now, I must also correct myself: the lady wearing the necklace is Somali, not Ethiopian (though similar necklaces are worn in Harar). I guess there is a lot of overlap of jewellery styles in that region, and there are very similar beads made in Harar (though the Harar silver beads I have seen do not have the decorative element in the middle of the bead dividing the two parts of the globe).
Sorry, I didn't see the picture you posted before I sending my comment. These are the Harar beads I referred to. I will try can and post the picture of the Somali beads...
You are right, Tribal, there are two kinds of beads on the photo. Unfortunately, I am not expert enough to say for sure where thy come from. I just know that there were/are Yemeni silversmith in Ethiopia (and I perhaps also in Somalia in the better days of that unfortunate country), so would it be unreasonable to assume that some "fusion-styles" have emerged? Just an idea...
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