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Antique Blue Diamond Kiffa Powder Glass Bead W Red Back Mauritania African Trade For Sale
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Antique Blue Diamond Kiffa Powder Glass Bead W Red Back Mauritania African Trade:
$48.00
This is an antique blue Kiffa bead with a red back which comes from Mauritania,Africa. This hard to find rare antiquebead is in great overall condition with some surface wear to the top of the bead.Veryhighly desirable this Kiffa beadmeasures 13.71mm long by11mm wide and would be excellent for jewelry making or adding to your antique African trade bead collection. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.... \"Kiffa beads are rare powder glass beads named after theMauritaniancity ofKiffa where French ethnologistR.Mauny documented them first in 1949. Kiffabeads represent one of the highest levels of artistic skill and ingenuity in bead making, being manufactured with the simplest materials and tools available - pulverized European glassbeads or fragments of them, bottleglass, pottery shards, tin cans, twigs,steel needlessome gum arabic,and open fires.The term Kiffa bead, named after the one of the old bead making centres of Kiffa in Mauritania, was coined by bead collectors during the 1980s. According to Peter Francis, Jr., the making of powder glass beads in West Africa may date back a few hundred years, and to possibly 1200 CE in Mauritania. Maure powder glass beads are believed to copy older, Islamicbeads, of the type made in Fustatand elsewhere. Although the making of Mauritanian powder glass beads appears to be an ancient tradition, no archaeological evidence to establish their age has been found to date.\" I combine shipping on multiple orders so please check out my store Mountainamma\'s Marketplace where I have thousands of items to browse from Africa and beyond. For buyers of multiple items please message me before you buy for helpcombiningshipping fees.
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