Large Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Cylinder Graduated strand of small 8mm

Graduated strand of small 8mm x 5mm diameter to large 15mm x 9mm diameter beads

Center bead is 28mm square

with a metal riveted insert at the hole

Priced individually

Large Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Cylinder Graduated strand of small 8mmThis very cool and magical bead was made in Kiffa, Mauritania. It is very old and was made as a female fertility charm, mainly by women artists. Historically, Kiffa beads are very important as its ancient technique (dating to 1000 years ago) made it one of the oldest glass bead making processes in Africa, which was purely African in origin. This bead is around 200 years old, possibly older, and it has been enhanced sometime in the early 1900s (the