Set of Vintage African Baule Bronze and Copper Anchor-Shaped Pendants - Rita Okrent Collection (P836)

Set of Vintage African Baule Bronze and Copper Anchor-Shaped Pendants - Rita Okrent Collection (P836)Sourced in the 1980's by Rita, these vintage tribal copper alloy and bronze pendants are made by the Baule people to look like ship anchors. Each pendant has 3 4 rings on top to give it flexibility in your designs, and to allow for an item to hang from below it. Could serve as focal pendants on their own or to complement an existing focal pendant. Widths and length vary 1 1. 5 inches either way. Sold as a group. Pendant Item 836

37 beads on strand

Likely to have been and element in a traditional wedding necklace or dowry

Mix of Vintage and Antique Bohemian Glass Beads

6 1/2" long (16

10-11mm at widest points

Reserved: Lovely mix of brown

Ancient Sumer

“Medium” is a relative term comparing these to smaller glass nila beads from our shops

Especially nice as design is repeated on 3 sides / all the way around the bead

Originally from the Middle East - likely found in either Lebanon or Egypt

Collector Item 335a

A Tuareg girl receives her first Tcherot from her mother at the age of seventeen