Idar Oberstein Agate Talhakimt Tanfouk Amulets, Sold Individually - Rita Okrent Collection (P954)

Idar Oberstein Agate Talhakimt Tanfouk Amulets, Sold Individually - Rita Okrent Collection (P954)Old Tuareg agate talhakimt tanfouk amulets rings. Talhakimt are amulets worn by the fierce nomadic Berber Tuareg people of Saharan Africa to avert evil and illness. They are also worn as hair ornaments. Traditionally, young Tuareg men wear numerous talhakimt around their fingers to create a clinking noise when hit together, intending to call the attention of young women to courtship. Manufactured in Idar Oberstein, Germany, from Brazilian agate, and

serving as a primary source of artificial light

Manufactured in Europe for the African Trade

Likely from Yemen

Ancient Glass Item 219

The Dogon people

These beads were usually discovered in the caravan towns of Timbuktu

Antiquity Item 156d

19 inches wide at widest point

Idar Oberstein

Metal and brass composition

Circa 1950's or later

A Hirz was a traditional silver amulet made to contain a prayer or blessing to be worn as part of the bridal dowry on a woman