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Wonderful vintage Tcherot double amulet made from leather and silver. This tcherot is one of our favorites and was featured in our most recent ad in Ornament Magazine. We love how its owner decorated it with a string of beads.
Kitab or tcherot amulets are found in the regions where the Tuareg nomadic people live, such as Mauritania and Niger. Tcherot typically contain small objects with amulet properties and carefully folded magical formulas as well as verses from the Koran, all designed to protect and strengthen the wearer or to ensure her fertility. A Tuareg girl receives her first Tcherot from her mother at the age of seventeen. (from the book "African Beads, Jewels of a Continent" by Evelyn Simak).
This amulet dates from the mid 1900's or earlier.
Pendant Item 642p
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