Large Augmented Rare Kiffa Bead wire Dusty-looking newly created gray glass

Dusty-looking newly created gray glass beads from Indonesia

This 100+ year old piece of jewelry features four brass heads as a wonderful pendant (measures 4" from ear to ear

Very cool newly made lacquer bracelet from India with sterling silver images of the god Ganesha on his rat/mouse steed

The conical holes are about 2

Beautiful design element

Large Augmented Rare Kiffa Bead wire Dusty-looking newly created gray glassThis 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