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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Good gracious! That`s extraordinary! Gorgeous colour, too.
Must be from Tibet.
Tibet is famous of such amber but i doubt it; anyhow, i am not sure how they managed to come to Morocco; for sure, Morocco cannot be it's origin.
This is also the color of the Amber they wear in Ethiopia and Somalia and Mali, but never as large as this, I have seen photos of these enormous pieces definitely from Tibet. Gr. Ingrid
Me too, i have seen such pictures; they hang them on neck and on breast; they tend to be long strings of beads
At the horse festival in Sichuan, China.
Also on their heads, this some Tibettans (there are quite a number of them in Amsterdam) shown me on their mobile phones as I happen to have a couple of the Ethiopian strings. But they were looking for even ;arger beads than I had.
Ingrid+Frankie thank you for the info.
Thanks for featuring
I would be most interested to know (a) the chemical analysis of beads such as these, and (b) where they were made. I wonder if they were originally made up in this form or have they been made from, say, smaller beads that have been heat treated and pressed. Baltic amber is processed in various parts of the world these days - Nepal, China and India to my own knowledge. And I think Thailand could be a source, too, and probably many other places. Tibet could also be a source as I believe many new beads do come from there now.
I`m not saying that such beads are not made of real amber, it`s not possible to tell from a photo. Faysal, what do the beads feel like. For example, are they light for their size compared with plastic and warm to the touch?
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