African Jewelry in the VA collection includes manillas and Ethiopian crosses.
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The Fulani are the most numerous nomadic people on earth and one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa. Mostly Muslim, they are primarily nomads and sedentary farmers. For centuries they created African metalwork and jewelry like arm and ankle bracelets as symbols of wealth and status, fashion adornments and for birth, coming of…
The Fulani are the most numerous nomadic people on earth and one of the largest ethnic African groups in West Africa. Mostly Muslim, they are primarily nomads and sedentary farmers. For centuries theycreated African metalwork and jewelry in the form of arm and ankle bracelets as symbols of wealth and status, fashion adornments worn for…
The Fulani are the most numerous nomadic people on earth and one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa. Mostly Muslim, they are primarily nomads and sedentary farmers. They created metalwork African jewelry as arm and ankle bracelets for centuries that were symbols of wealth and status, fashion adornments, used ceremonially for births, coming…
The Fulani are the most numerous nomadic people on earth and one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa. Mostly Muslim, they are primarily nomads and sedentary farmers. For centuries they created African metalwork and jewelry in the form of arm and ankle bracelets as symbols of wealth and status, fashion adornments worn for…
The Fulani are the most numerous nomadic people on earth and one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa. Mostly Muslim, they are primarily nomads and sedentary farmers. For centuries theyc reated African metalwork and jewelry in the form of arm and ankle bracelets as symbols of wealth and status, fashion adornments and for…
The Fulani are the most numerous nomadic people on earth and one of the largest ethnic groups in West-Africa. Mostly Muslim and primarily nomads and sedentary farmers, for centuries they created African metalwork and jewelry in the form of arm and ankle bracelets. They were symbols of wealth and status, fashion adornments for birth, coming…
The Kota are a fairly small tribe in Gabon, Africa with strong ties to France. African metalwork bracelets became known as manillas and were locally made and used as currency, s medium of exchange for trade or barter, purchase land, livestock and other goods and services; pay for significant life events such as births, coming…
The Senufo, numbering between 1.5 and 2.7 million people in West Africa, are primarily agricultural. They live in mud-brick farm houses in large villages and are renown as remarkable musicians, creators of wood figures, masks and metalwork tribal-art. For centuries, they like many groups created arm and ankle bracelets as symbols of wealth and status…
The Senufo of Mali number between 1.5 and 2.7 million people in West Africa and are primarily agricultural. They are renown as remarkable musicians and carvers of wood figures and masks. For centuries the Senufu created metalwork arm and ankle bracelets that were symbols of wealth and status, fashion adornments used ceremonially for births, coming…
For centuries, the Tuareg were nomadic tribal people who traversed the Sahel region and Saharan Africa Desert. Like most African peoples, they created arm and ankle bracelets to serve as symbols of wealth, status, wearable adornments, for ceremonies of births, coming of age, marriages and burials, trade for animals and agricultural goods and as a…
Historically nomadic tribal people who traversed the Sahel region and Saharan-Africa, the Tuareg in Mali and Niger, like many African peoples, created arm and ankle bracelets that were easy to transport and had many uses: wealth and status symbol, fashion adornments, for ceremonial use for births, coming of age, marriages, and burials, to trade for…
Two million Tuareg traditional herders were historically nomadic tribal peoples who traversed the Sahel region and the Sahara Desert in an area the size of Western Europe in the North African countries of Mali, Niger, Libya, Algeria, Chad and West African Burkina Faso. As followers of Islam, they are prohibited from creating figures or masks…
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