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Tu Temporal

Posted by Cam Knuckey on April 14, 2011 at 2:52pm

Low grade silver with old red coral beads. Engraved with applied bats. I know these are Chinese and am told they are Tu from Qinghai Province but we found them in Peshawar, some time ago.

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howah April 14, 2011 at 7:35pm

hi Cam,

these earrings are from the Tu ethnic group in Western China qinghai province.
Cam Knuckey April 15, 2011 at 1:54am

Thanks, that makes sense I felt the Karakorum Highway might have brought them to me (?)

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