Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead stone rectangles This ready-to-wear prayer box is

This ready-to-wear prayer box is from Niger

French cross beads

Sold as a set of 12 only

perfect size for leather or ribbon work

Large coin silver amulet made in India circa 1940s

Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead stone rectangles This ready-to-wear prayer box isThis 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