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  Patricia Deany January 8, 2013 at 1:44pm

  Assuming this is Egyptian?
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  Nada January 8, 2013 at 1:48pm

  Yes Patricia,

  This is an Egyptian upper arm bracelet from the 1920s and I believe Rashaida.
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  Patricia Deany January 8, 2013 at 1:55pm

  The engravings are very interesting, are they animals or people or designs? The rashaida attribution is also very interesting, I really know very little of their jewelry and have never seen something like this before -- although people of the Horn wear lots of different kinds of jewelry- some looks Yemeni, some looks like it is from the Gulf and some looks like it is Egyptian. I am really only familiar with the Rashaida veil and heavy bracelets.
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  Nada January 8, 2013 at 2:04pm

  I really don't know Partircia, to my eyes it looks like palm trees with dates, but it could be something else.
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  Patricia Deany January 8, 2013 at 2:17pm

  The reason I asked about the pattern or engravings is I wondered if it was part of the zar tradition, jewelry which does sometimes portray strange looking animals and people on it which is, in general, unusual for Islamic jewelry. It might be fun to look into the Zar tradition again, so I will look up a bit of it and post it for discussion.
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  Nada January 8, 2013 at 2:30pm

  Could very well be. I rotated the picture so I could see the forms you see better. This could very well be zar jewelry.
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  Patricia Deany January 8, 2013 at 2:33pm

  I think it may well be. Maybe Sigrid or Rami will get in on this discussion -- I have a few pieces from Iran which I suspect are zar but have never had them verified as such. Rami has a wonderful, wonderful zar bracelet which I covet. I am interested in all things Rashaida so this really does interest. me.
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  ait ouakli January 8, 2013 at 5:16pm

  nice the way we see things :-)

  i see actualy the fishes and bee or buterfly . inetersting
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  Patricia Deany January 8, 2013 at 5:54pm

  I like the zar jewelry very much, mainly I have seen pendants, would love to own a bracelet like Rami's or this one but  they are very difficult to find.
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  ait ouakli January 8, 2013 at 8:50pm

  tribal , it is a uterfly isnt ?? i see it also as a buterfly. do you see the swimming fishes and the eggs ?

  what does mean in the indian / pakistan culture ?