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Jose, where are the coins from? Could you post the detail of the small side -enamelled?- ornaments?
Thank you, Chantal.They are Moroccan coins. As to the ornaments they may have been enamelled but there are no traces left. I am attaching below some close up pictures.
Thanks for the close ups Jose. Shame I cant help with the area where they would have been made and worn. Maybe somebody else can.
I believe that this is a chimera of a jewel. The double bailed coin at the base is from igmahern or thereabouts near to Ouarzazatte. . The chains are a typical high atlas style. The glass adorned discs are tarroudant. The mismatched hooks Marrakech and Ait atta (draa) ........so maybe a dealers creation, maybe gathered elements used by a lady somewhere in the mountains to make her headdress.
I thought it looked different from....the"usual"ones (whatever that is!)
Thank you very much, Sarah. You maybe right. I saw a picture of a lady (see below) wearing a "chain arrangement" and, though it is very different arrangement, I thought that this could be, as you say, a lady's own homemade arrangement.
The photo of the woman: Chaouia, Aures.1937. its the cover of the Benfoughal book on les bijoutiers de l'Aures.