Mixed lot amulets and necklaces with pendants ·  Mauritania / Morocco · ID: 3049858

Description

1. six southern crosses “boghdad”, Morocco, Gulimim, Djebel Bani, Pre-Sahara and Mauritania, silver(alloy(?), hollow work, granule and engraved, glass cabochon, m: 2,3 cm x 2,3 cm to 6 cm x 5 cm; w: 93 g

2. two crosses of the south “boghdad”, Mauritania, silver(alloy(?), nails with silver, metal beads, wood, m: 3,9 cm x 3,7 cm and 5,5 cm x 5,5 cm; w: 27 g

Simple crosses on wood with metal beads are found mainly in Mauritania and the adjacent areas of the Sahara.

3. two small amulets, Mauritania / Sahara, Tuareg, silver(alloy(?), chased and engraved, attached silver beads, m: 3,5 cm x 2,8 cm and 3,8 cm x 4,8 cm; w: 42 g

The design of these amulets is typically Moorish, but they can also be found in this form among the Tuareg.

4. Necklace with silver beads, amulet and two southern crosses, Morocco, Gulimim, Djebel Bani, Pre-Sahara / Mauritania, silver (alloy(?)), hollow work, granule and engraved, m: 3.8 cm x 3.3 cm and 3.8 cm x 4.8 cm, l: 36 cm (total ); w: 71 g

Comes with:
necklace with three small crosses of the south “boghdad”