African Beads
African Beads
 Wood Wrist Mala Beads with African Flower Pear Wood Fortune Buddha Amulet Pendant Sale Price: $7.99  Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionBuddha (Sanskrit: ????????? ???? ?????; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, Lumbini (today in Nepal), on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.[1] The word Buddha is a title for the first awakened being in an era...  |
 African Turquoise Bead and Natural Dark Wood Beaded Bracelet List Price: Sale Price: $23.00 You save: $20.00 (47%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours DescriptionA chunky bead bracelet is a great way to update your look. This one embraces an earthy beauty, with natural dark wood beads, in mixed sizes, paired with dyed African turquoise. The 7 1/2-inch stretch bracelet slips easily over the wrist for instant on-the-go style. |
 Vanessa Mooney Poppystar Threaded Necklace with Vintage African Beads Sale Price: $437.50 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours DescriptionVanessa Mooney expresses the beauty and spirit found everywhere in the world in her handcrafted jewelry. Her vision of a vibrant continent is clear in this Poppystar Threaded Necklace with Vintage African Beads... |
 Razor Blade Pendant Accented with African Padre Beads, Ghana Recycled Glass Beads and Black Tulsai Wood Beads Sale Price: $9.99 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionThis pendant / necklace features a smooth edge razor blade pendant that measures 1 1/2 " long by 1" wide. Accenting the pendant are beads from both Africa and India. The African beads include red padre beads from Ethiopian, as well as Ghana recycled beads... |
 Mercedes Salazar "Multicharms" Lady Bug Coin with Adjustable Pearls and African Beads Bracelet Sale Price: $48.00 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours DescriptionThe perfect balance of elegant style and color, this bracelet by Mercedes Salazar is both charming and feminine. Design an everyday look by wearing this adjustable bracelet with your favorite bracelet or watch. |
 Wendy Mink "Out of Africa" Mixed African Bead and Glass Necklace List Price: Sale Price: $58.80 You save: $39.20 (40%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours |
 Brass African Mask Dangle Earrings Made with Brass, African Trade Beads, and Cotton Cord Sale Price: $9.99 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionThis is a pair of earrings from our Unique You line. These particular pair of earrings are made with brass, African trade beads, and cotton cord. They are 1 1/2 " long by 1/2" wide and have gold fill earwires. |
 Asante Fertility Brass Pendant Necklace with Decorated with Tulsi Wood, Red Sandalwood, and African Red White Heart Bead Sale Price: $10.99 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionThis is a brass pendant of an African Asante fertility doll measuring about 1 12" long. It comes on a black adjustable cord necklace that is decorated with a variety of beads from India and Africa. From India there are black tulsi wood and red sandalwood beads, and from Africa there are red "white heart" beads... |
 Gold Tone Marijuana Leaf Pewter Pendant with African Sandcast Beads, Coconut, and Lava Beads Sale Price: $9.99 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionThis is a pewter pendant featuring a gold tone marijuana leaf. The pendant measures 1 " long and is made of lead free pewter. It comes on a black adjustable cord necklace. Enhancing the necklace are colorful sandcast beads imported from Ghana, Africa... |
 Wendy Mink "Out of Africa" Long African Bead Empress Necklace Sale Price: $273.00 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours |
African Beads
Tips To Choose The Right African Jewelry
To chart the history of African jewelry you have to go back to Namibia 27,000 years ago. In the cave paintings of Namibia you can see the awakening of the artistic man. It took quite a few years from then to about 15,000 years ago when an oval pendant in bone, a piece of antique jewelry, in Tunisia, indicated what was probably the birth of African jewelry.
The earliest materials used in African jewelry making were bones mainly of birds, nuts and seeds. It’s because of the very perishable nature of the materials used in antique jewelry that there is very little of it around as exhibits today.
To be able to choose the right kind of African jewelry you have to know a bit about the various area wise skills both in the crafting of jewelry and the prevailing materials technology in Africa in the early days.
Antique jewelry of Africa indicates that whereas West Africa evolved in brass jewelry, copper was used in most other places and gold in a few like the Akan people. Boat shaped ankle bracelets were used on the Ivory Coast by the Senufo tribe. The married Faluni women from Mali wore gold earrings still considered as works of art. The tribal people of Sudan especially the Nuer and Shilluk tribes and the Dinkya tribe of Kenya used ivory for their jewelry. Italian, Dutch and Czech glass beads were traded for African goods in the 14th till the 20th century. The ancient trade beads, as they were called, are simulated today.
If you visit web sites pertaining to African jewelry a feast for the eyes greets you. There are Fulumi hoop earrings used in Sudan area as daily wear. These are in sterling silver with gilding. There are Akuaba doll earrings signifying fertility still worn in Ghana by the Ashanti tribe. The original dolls were in blackened and polished wood. You can buy Masai Seed Bead bracelet, Kenyan Trade Bead jewelry, Ethiopian Bead necklace or the Glass and Brass necklace from Central Niger done in the Wodaabe style.
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