Tuareg Pyramidal Charm Amulets 2 Color:B Materials: Polychrome and gold leaf

Materials: Polychrome and gold leaf and lacquer on a finely carved wooden figure

Sterling Silver Brushed Triangle Post Earrings

Sap ran down from the trees and gathered on the forest floors

(B) 12mm x 35mm x 13mm x 48mm (marble tubes)

the symbol of women

Tuareg Pyramidal Charm Amulets 2 Color:B Materials: Polychrome and gold leafTuareg Pyramidal Charm Amulets 2 These distinctive amulets are in the symbolic shape related to as Talhakimt. They are found across Islamic Africa, in particular among the nomadic Tuareg Berber peoples of Niger, Mali and Algeria. They possibly derive from Indian agate finger rings or even archer's thumb rings. The pyramidal shape is also related to Tuareg Cross amulets. In Sudan during the 1930s, British scholar and administrator A. J. Arkell