Large Augmented Rare Kiffa Bead faceted 48mm long x 42mm tall

48mm long x 42mm tall x 9mm thick with four 3-4mm loops at the top and dozens of gangly drops

8" strand of very cool and rootbeer tourmaline pendants

with an assortment of sizes in between

Tamba of antique light chartreuse Venetian seed beads

Large Augmented Rare Kiffa Bead faceted 48mm long x 42mm tallThis 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 (spruced