Large Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead silver cuff Antique bronze (or mixed metal)

Antique bronze (or mixed metal) ring from Ghana

graduated beads

16" strand of rough cut chunky pink corundum cubes

1 ounce of sterling silver round wire

Very ornate and beautifully detailed

Large Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead silver cuff Antique bronze (or mixed metal)This 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