Idar Oberstein Agate Talhakimt Tanfouk Amulets, Sold Individually - Rita Okrent Collection (P954) Hebron Stone Item 291E and L

Stone Item 291E and L

to classify groups of ornaments from specific geographic areas and time periods

They are sometimes also referred to as Indo-Pacific or Trade Wind beads

Lovely etching and hue

They are also worn as hair ornaments

Idar Oberstein Agate Talhakimt Tanfouk Amulets, Sold Individually - Rita Okrent Collection (P954) Hebron Stone Item 291E and LOld 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