Tag - Chaplet

Chaplet – Bone Beads – Morocco

Mid 20th century. Without the green rope, the chaplet is cm 51,5 (20.27") in length. Bone beads cm. 1,2 (0,47"). Gr. 144,2 (5.08 oz.). The chaplet are instruments of prayer, similar to the rosary. Berbers are the indigenous ethnic group of North Africa. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic...

Chaplet – Mauritania

Mid 20th century. Without the silk plume, the chaplet is cm 52,0 (16.92") in length; gr. 135,15 (4.77 oz.). Beads: wood finely inlaid with silver, silver, agate, amber, old glass. The chaplet are a nakelace, but also instruments of prayer, similar to the rosary.