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two old earrings Hamar

Posted by Eva Baby on September 20, 2013 at 12:55pm

Ethiopiathe spiral is made of Aluminium and well used, the other one (looking like a clothes hanger) is made of copper-nickel. Both are earrings by the Hamar People of the Southern Ethnies in Ethiopia. It is a little difficult to imagine that they go through holes in the earlobes, especially the "clothes-hanger-type"-one, but I have seen a photo someone wearing this one too. I only cannot find it at the moment.

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