Large Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead rutilated quartz With numerous heishi beads as

With numerous heishi beads as well

We have a matched pair in stock

5mm hole in the jade that you can thread a bead into or add another such dangle

Some wear due to the age of these beads and drops

35 mm long x 6mm diameter

Large Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead rutilated quartz With numerous heishi beads asThis 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