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  Eva Baby September 12, 2011 at 6:28pm

  Beautiful!!! Love it!
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  elmamoun ben sabek September 16, 2011 at 8:20pm

  it is not berber it is twarreg croix .berber people have no croix they have onlly fatima`s hands or febulle(brsh)
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  Eva Baby September 16, 2011 at 9:25pm

  But this cross is worn by Mauritanian people, and they are not Tuareg. I know the people, as they live in Timbuktu, (they come from Mauritania). Sorry.
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  Ann Porteus September 16, 2011 at 10:50pm

  Oh Eva and Elmamoun,
  Wonder if it should be called 'Hassanyia' maybe this style has evolved from the Tuareg or even the Ethiopians. The cross over of ideas between people is sometimes overlooked and I have read that the Tuareg migrated from East to the western Sahara. As Muslim people the Hassanyia may also have had contact with the Ethiopians as they travelled into Arabia?
  I will try to spend a little more time looking through my fairly extensive library. Maybe I will find something.
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  SARAH CORBETT September 16, 2011 at 10:55pm

  https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/southern-cross-pendants

   

  and what about these??

   
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  Ann Porteus September 16, 2011 at 11:47pm

  Thank you Sarah,
  Point taken. Those are wonderful.
  I think that it may be more relevant to ask if there are any cultures that don't use a cross in one form or another?
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  Eva Baby September 17, 2011 at 6:58am

  Delete Comment            Ann,  I agree with you. These people from the Mauritanian desert, of which some have migrated to Northern Mali (Timbuktu) call themselves the "Hassanyia" according to their language. (it is the same thing like the Tuareg who are often called "Kel Tamashek" according to their language. Perhaps my point of view is wrong, but I have many times been assured by Tuareg from Niger that the Tuareg are those, who speak Tamashek. The Hassanyia and Sonrai and even Peul groups and others may live similarly, but differ from their language. Don't forget that I have made two desert trekkings with Mauritanians as guides (men who used to go on the Azalai to bring the salt plates to Timbuktu).  Anyway, I am not the ultimate voice, so all I can say, that this is my opinion, and others have also their right to be.
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  Ann Porteus September 17, 2011 at 8:00am

  Hi Eva,

  I think that Sarah's link is a good one.
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  elmamoun ben sabek September 18, 2011 at 10:10am

  the deference between the croix it mean a deference tribes or villages it is like a small comunity each one have their oun croix
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  Ann Porteus September 18, 2011 at 10:33am

  Yes Mamoun, true, there are always regional and village differences. But there are crosses among the Berber. See Sarahs link please and have a look at the beautiful cross she refers to..
  https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/southern-cross-pendants
  I think they are really beautiful. Don't you.
  Ann