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Posted by Cissé Beads on May 6, 2014 at 11:16pm

old granite beads

ait ouakli May 6, 2014 at 11:18pm

Bandiagara serpentine or mauritania ?
SARAH CORBETT May 7, 2014 at 7:56am

i think they call them gneiss in Morocco?
Cissé Beads May 7, 2014 at 8:35am

Is not from Bandiagara they are from the north of Mali which is desert of colours maybe they have similar in Mauritania. All my beads are the nort of the north Mali and Niger.
ait ouakli May 7, 2014 at 10:24am

North mali,niger. Sounds touareg :-) i actualy know this stone as a serpentine stone,used from the tuareg and haussa in jewelry and handicraft as boxes and ashtrys
Cissé Beads May 7, 2014 at 10:30am

Is where I'm from, North of Mali you Arabs and Berbers too.
Gregory Schaaf May 28, 2015 at 5:28pm

What date were these made, approximately? Greg and Angie
Cissé Beads May 29, 2015 at 1:10pm

Hi Gregory,

Hi Gregory,
These beads are from the Dogon Region and part of Hombori they date approximately XI to XIV.
Source from oral history of Dogon people.

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