Other Adornement

Cache Sexe – PIKURAN – KIRDI – Cameroon

Leather, cotton. Without fringes, the cache-sexe is cm. 15,5 high x cm. 12,5 width (6.10" x 4.92"). The name of Kirdi - which in Arabic means that infidel non-Muslim - is attributed to the many ethnic groups, animist, of Sudanese origin, who live in the northern Cameroon: Mafa, Massa, Kapsikì, Mundang ... These...

Berber Belt – Algeria

Mid 20th century. Silver. Gr. 59,6 (2.10 oz.); cm. 104,0 in lenght (40.94"). Berbers are the indigenous ethnic group of North Africa. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. The name Berber appeared for the first time after the end of the Roman Empire. Many Berbers...