Old Silver Touareg Cross

Old Silver Touareg CrossOld Silver Touareg Cross In excellent condition, a hand engraved silver Touareg cross from the Bellah indigenous black community of southwest Mali. Such a cross was worn either as a pendant around the neck, sewn into clothing or pinned in the hair. The upper area of the cross is representative of Sky (grandfather, father, brother and their material world), and the lower area representative of Earth (the domain of female relations and everyday

Such pieces are generally the focal beads of antique Berber necklaces

roughly translated as “bouquet of charms that jingle”

a stone highly valued in Tibetan culture for its protective and healing qualities

especially in parts of West Africa

each of them : 350€

some consider it an echo of the 5 Islamic pillars

A very fine old Amazigh women’s protective silver amulet from the early 20th Century

This fine piece is nearly a century old

A group defective item sales: Tribal metal necklaces

representing various elements of the Tuareg way of life

In the most special traditional Moroccan mint tea servings

As a regular rule