Traditonal Mauritanian Silver/Glass Beads elbow beads large coin-silver bead with glass

large coin-silver bead with glass red-orange stone on both sides

Each bead has four 28mm x 11mm tubes fashioned together with two wonderfully jangly sets of clapperless bells

Traditionally worn in hair braiding

measures 37mm in diameter x 15mm thick

these really vary in size and feathered pattern

Traditonal Mauritanian Silver/Glass Beads elbow beads large coin-silver bead with glass22" strand of old traditionally cast metal beads (34mm) with colorful old glass (5 6mm diameter) and shamrock shaped dangles (911mm). From the Berber tribe that inhabit parts of the northwestern African country of Mauritania. Around 100 years old.