Fulani Celluloid Tamba Heirloom Necklace 3 India Rare and Luxurious natural materials

Rare and Luxurious natural materials

Afghanistan origin ca

4 1/2" drop from ear

Shiva is distinct from Vishnu and Brahma

Dutch Cobalt Hand Wound Beads 18th-19th Century Dogon Heirloom Beads

Fulani Celluloid Tamba Heirloom Necklace 3 India Rare and Luxurious natural materialsCelluloid Tamba Heirloom Necklace 3 Original Heirloom Tamba Necklace Waist Beads used by Traditional Fulani Women as waist decoration. These unusual flat disc shaped beads were much beloved in West Africa for their exotic material (resembling indigenous coconut shell disc shape beads but much thinner and finer), their intensity of color, and the sinuous, snake like movement and appearance when worn on the body. Young women of a Marriageable Age might