Bracelets & Anklets

Huge Beautiful Gurunsi / Frafra Anklet – African Currency – Burkina Faso

Bronze, lost-wax casting. Grams 3.348,0 (118.10 oz.). External diameter 26,5 cm (10.43"); internal diameter cm. 10,0 (3.94"). The Gurunsi are a set of related ethnic groups inhabiting northern Ghana and south and central Burkina Faso. Oral traditions of the Gurunsi hold that they originated from the western Sudan near Lake Chad. While...

Old Massive Silver Berber Bracelet – AIT JELIDASSEN – North Morocco

Mid 20th century. Silver hallmark ram's head. Grams 270,9 (9.46 oz.); diameter cm. 7,7 (3.03″), inner diameter cm. 6,5 (2.56″). The Imazighen (singular Amazigh) also known as the Berbers are among the original peoples of North Africa. Their myths. Legends and history span 9,000 years, back to the Proto-Mediterraneans.  They have achieved...

Old Moorish Bracelet – KHAL KHAL – West Africa

Mid 20th century. Silver gr. 59,2 (2.10 oz.); cm. 6,7 width x cm. 6,3 high (2.63" x 2.48"); inner diameter cm 6,5 (2.55"). The central talisman is cm. 3,0 x cm 3,2 (1.18" x 1.25"). The Guedra is a ritual dance of love, performed by women for benefit of men. It is a ballet of hands and feet: sometimes the dancer stands, but more often...