Tuareg Pyramidal Charm Amulets 2 Color:B When he was admitted

When he was admitted

17 to 18th Century Iron Funerary Headrest

(B) 12mm x 35mm x 13mm x 48mm (marble tubes)

Materials: Polychrome and gold leaf and lacquer on a finely carved wooden figure

Tuareg Pyramidal Charm Amulets 2 Color:B When he was admittedTuareg Pyramidal Charm Amulets 2 These distinctive amulets are in the symbolic shape related to as Talhakimt. They are found across Islamic Africa, in particular among the nomadic Tuareg Berber peoples of Niger, Mali and Algeria. They possibly derive from Indian agate finger rings or even archer's thumb rings. The pyramidal shape is also related to Tuareg Cross amulets. In Sudan during the 1930s, British scholar and administrator A. J. Arkell