Large Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Kiffa Beads These very cool beads have

These very cool beads have a rough

Ancient amazonite beads sold in carefully preselected groups of 8 chunky beads

30-32mm in diameter x 16-17mm thick (hollow) with 8-10mm loop for stringing

antique early 1900's Venetian made and traded in Ivory Coast

Very funky with large holes

Large Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Kiffa Beads These very cool beads haveThis 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