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Yemen Amulet with very old coral beads

Posted by Anna Garner on September 27, 2011 at 9:22pm

In Yemen every bride wore at least one amulet on her wedding day, sometimes as many as 5 on one string of silver beads. This small necklace was made in Yemen in recent times from some of the components of a bridal dowry from about 1900.

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