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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GreekAntiques, post: 4482790, member: 64355&quot;]Good evening, all. I would like to share a relatively recent find with you, for reference, for pleasure and to see what I can learn.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a Tuareg &quot;cross,&quot; made of silver (not tested) and with a central blue cabochon, which I do not believe is turquoise--or even natural.&nbsp; The cross is of the <i>abalak </i>style, one of the 21 different styles, at least according to the following sources. It has many of the traditional markings and incisions, which all signify something to the Tuareg.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]389651[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;For you, it may look like a small unimportant detail, like your thumbnail. But for me, it is the whole vast world. Look at this jewel... here is the ant, here is the hyena, the jackal, the hoof of a horse, that of a gazelle, the sun, the moon, the stars, the good eye... this triangle, this is woman, and here are the eyebrows of the Malignant One, there, laughter... it is all of our lives in one piece of silver.&quot;&nbsp; </i>(Translated from the French by Helene E. Hagan, from original Tuareg words of an artisan cited by J. Gabus, 1971)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The cross is suspended from a necklace comprised of many small round black glass beads and four small cylindrical silvery beads.</p><p><br /></p><p>For more on Tuareg crosses and jewelry, see:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://mohamedahnou.weebly.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://mohamedahnou.weebly.com" rel="nofollow">https://mohamedahnou.weebly.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazigh.it/tuareg-crosses/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazigh.it/tuareg-crosses/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazigh.it/tuareg-crosses/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ornamentmagazine.org/articles/tuareg-jewelry-413" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ornamentmagazine.org/articles/tuareg-jewelry-413" rel="nofollow">https://www.ornamentmagazine.org/articles/tuareg-jewelry-413</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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