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absolutely Akkie, and even if some very fine jewelry was lost here, i was attracted to it as it shown great creativity and somehow was a "sane" recycling compared to jewelry transformed to be sold to tourists (cf. my other photos and bracelets turned into boxes and trinkets..)....here it is an incense burner undoubtefully used by local libyan people inside a mosque or a saint's shrine for religious ceremonies and made of charity-given objects
I had not seen yet Libyan jewelry made in to trinkets. I only knew about the boxes made from bracelets and the ashtrays made from Indian anklets. So this is new to me. We learn all the time!
as i said on my previous comment, this incense burner was meant to be used locally and i don't think it was geared towards the tourist market!!!
More likely, the jewelry was a donation to a local mosque or shrine (common practice in the muslim world before the monetization of the region and everything went cash) transformed into a useful device for the cult
so butiful first ihave not seen before .