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Hi all, I found this in Ouagadougou earlier this week. Further information on this type of necklace would be appreciated. Thanks!
Thanks Chantal and Sarah. This necklace has cloves as well. A couple of detailed images below.
Yes, so has mine!..........Obviously same provenance. Fancy finding this in Ouagadougou...Great details with the cloves.
Great find Preethi. Love it, also the cloves!
Thanks for the detail photos, very nice, love the cloves in between. Wonderful old coins! Beautiful necklace!
I love these natural really used rural pieces.. I love coins and this is a real beauty!
Where are the cloves? Am I blind? very small amounts of them right? looks like knots to me.. my contacts need to be changed!!
These are called "tazlagt n qrenfel" from kabilya in algeria. with variable amount of cloves mainly near the clasps.
I have had one that i sold years ago with very old spanish coins yours bears old ottoman ones mint in algeria.
How this came to western africais a mistery!!!! but a tuareg intermediary could be the answer.....southern algeria tuareag wore many jewels from northern algeria..this might be the place where it migrated further south.
At least a hundred year old...which is enough time to allow for such a long journey.
Great find
Preethi. congratulations. super find and actualy in unexpected area .
it ia a kabyl piece as all the members wrote.we call the coins "soltani pieces" they are until 300, 400 years old it depends.
some pieces are typical beni yenni production and the villages arround, it is a long story. to make it short. the kabyls in the high mountains refused the ottoman governement and were not paying taxes. it was actualy an autonome area ( a free small area ). to be make business and deals with neighbors aroound and markets, they were making the money themself to go and do thier shoping in the markets in other regions. some of te coins are the historical selfmade but wich one it is ??
how this piece came to burkina ??
there is a Mzab city in south Algeria. known with wholesellers , big markets and antiquity stores.
a huge quantity of items was between the 1980 and 2000 sold their. came from all the rest of the country. it was almost the only city without troubles that time and was dealing well with touristes and dealers from regions and even coutries arround.
there is still until now some few but expensive semilar pieces to find their. i bought 2 years ago some smaller necklaces that i sold in other city.
this ghardaia city was also an exchange place for tuareg and dealers from the sahara and sahel. smiths and traders from mali and niger were almost every day there. buying and selling. i guess it is taken from a malian trader and sold or offered it. later on, because of what is happening, the owners moved to burkina faso and offered for sale.
almost all the traders i know from mopti and djenné are now in birkina faso.
it is a wonderful necklace. i have some semilar beads and coins. i will post when i find them
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