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Venetian made
approximate size 8º
13 beads to a strand
5-18mm in diameter x 21mm long with 5mm hole
Very detailed
Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Gooseberry Venetian madeThis 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
