Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Red Coral We also have darker red

We also have darker red ones from Yemen

Strand of antique Peking opaque white glass beads

Hinged with a pin clasp

with 5mm bail at the top

Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Red Coral We also have darker redThis very cool and magical bead was made in Kiffa, Mauritania. It is very old and was made as a female fertility charm, mainly by women artists. Historically, Kiffa beads are very important as its ancient technique (dating to 1000 years ago) made it one of the oldest glass bead making processes in Africa, which was purely African in origin. This bead is around 200 years old, possibly older, and it has been enhanced sometime in the early 1900s (the