Africa

Africa is the second largest continent after Asia and covers about one-fifth of the total land surface of the Earth and is comprised of 54 countries. The United Nations’ Geoscheme divides the continent into 5 subregions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, West Africa and South Africa. The VA collection includes items mostly from West, East and Central Africa.

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  • Antique Tuareg Manilla Currency/Slave Bracelet, North/ West Africa (3149TKM) $275

    $275.00

    Historically nomadic tribal peoples who traversed the Sahel region and Saharan-Africa, for centuries the Tuareg created African metalwork and jewelry in the form of arm and ankle bracelets that were symbols of wealth and status, fashion adornments worn ceremonially for births, coming of age, marriages and burials, used to trade or barter for animals and…

  • Antique Tuareg Manilla Currency/Slave Bracelet, North/West Africa (3156JCE) $195

    $195.00

    Tuareg traditional herders were nomadic tribal peoples who traversed an area the size of Western Europe in the Sahel region and the Sahara Desert and in the North African countries of Mali, Niger, Libya, Algeria, Chad and West African Burkina Faso. Followers of Islam, they are prohibited from creating figures or masks and use their…

  • Antique/Vintage Ethiopian Fleury Cross with Textured Surface (E338ZCE)

    $175.00

    No other region has produced the quantity, quality, and diversity as the crosses from the Africa Ethiopian-Highlands, the second nation to adopt Christianity as its official religion. Ethiopian pendant crosses were made in a variety of sizes, designs, styles, and ornamentation which are metaphors for the religious beliefs, ideology, and practices of the Ethiopian Church…

  • Antique/Vintage Ethiopian Coptic Cross PattĆ©e (E329QCE)

    $175.00

    The term Coptic Cross refers to several variants in Christian art associated with the Coptic Orthodox Church in Africa. Coptic crosses from the Orthodox Church of Alexandria were a foundation for Ethiopian Cross design and symbolism. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church historically assimilated pre-Christian symbols and imparted its own meanings to them. A Christian cross with…

  • Antique/Vintage Ethiopian Coptic Cross PattĆ©e (E330ZCE)

    $165.00

    Each Coptic cross is one of several variants of a Christian cross associated with the Coptic Orthodox Church in Africa. African metalwork crosses of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria were a foundation for Ethiopian Cross designs and symbolism. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church historically assimilated into their art pre-Christian cross symbols and imparted its own…

  • Antique/Vintage Ethiopian Coptic Cross PattĆ©e(E328TCE)

    $175.00

    No other region has produced the quantity, quality and diversity of the crosses from the Africa Ethiopian Highlands, the second nation to adopt Christianity as its official religion.Ā  Ethiopian crosses were made in a variety of sizes, designs, styles and ornamentation which are metaphors for the religious beliefs, ideology and practices of the Ethiopian Church…

  • Antique/Vintage Ethiopian Coptic Cross with Birds (E305YBL) $115

    $115.00

    No other region has produced the quantity, quality, and diversity as the Christian cross from the Ethiopian Highlands in Africa, an area renowned for having accepted Christianity early in its history and its fine African art and metalwork. This Coptic Cross pendant features two stylized birds under the top circular portion artistically and spiritually transform…

  • Antique/Vintage Ethiopian Coptic Cross with Internal Latin Cross (E304YBL) $110

    $110.00

    This Ethiopian cross displays the distinctive tri-partite design features of Coptic crosses with its rounded horizontal arms and bottom that symbolize the significance of the Trinity in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Made in the Ethiopian Highlands, the top section contains a portion of a circle. In Coptic beliefs, circles symbolize eternity, Christā€™s halo, and the…

  • Antique/Vintage Ethiopian Coptic Fleury Cross with Textured Surface (E339DCE)

    $175.00

    No other region has produced the quantity, quality, and diversity as the pendant crosses from the Ethiopian Highlands in Africa, an area renowned for its unique African metalwork. This Fleury Cross is a floriated trefoil cross which is a cross with the end of each arm splayed out into three pointed lobes with decorative clusters….

  • Antique/Vintage Ethiopian Latin Cross (E331PCE)

    $175.00

    No other region has produced the quantity, quality and diversity as the Christian crosses from the Ethiopian Highlands in Africa, an area renowned for its unique African art and metalwork. The uniqueness of Ethiopian Crosses reflects influences of many ancient civilizations: Coptic, Celtic, Egyptian, Byzantine, Greek, and Roman. Ethiopia was the second country to make…

  • Antique/Vintage Ethiopian Latin Cross (E332FCE)

    $175.00

    No other region has produced the quantity, quality, and diversity as the Christian crosses from the Africa Ethiopian-Highlands an area renowned for its unique African art and metalwork The uniqueness of these Crosses reflects influences of many ancient civilizations: Coptic, Celtic, Egyptian, Byzantine, Greek, and Roman. Ethiopia was the second country to make Christianity its…

  • Antique/Vintage Ethiopian Latin Cross (E333GCE)

    $195.00

    No other region has produced the quantity, quality and diversity as the crosses from the Africa Ethiopian-Highlands, an area renowned for its unique African-art and African-metalwork. Their uniqueness of reflects influences of many ancient civilizations: Coptic, Celtic, Egyptian, Byzantine, Greek, and Roman. Ethiopia was the second country to make Christianity its official religion but remained…

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