• Extra Large Black Onyx Round Gemstones
• Silver Content Camel or Kuchi Gypsy Nose Ring, Circa mid-20th Century (Origin: Afghanistan; Collected: Afghanistan)
• Handcrafted Sterling Silver Spacers, Cones, Wire and Toggle Clasp from Bali
• Length: 23”

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KUCHI GYPSY NOSE RING OR CAMEL NOSE RING: This elaborate Nose Ring (either worn by a woman or camel) is handmade of pot metal alloy which contains some silver (“gillet”), glass and beads. It is believed to have come from the Kandahar Province in Afghanistan and brought across the Afghani border at great risk into Pakistan and then into America. In Kandahar Province, not all women wear burqas and the Kuchi Nomad women never do. They are fiercely independent, usually wreathed in silver necklaces and dressed in spangling embroidery. They stare boldly back from atop their camels when you cross them on the roads. It’s their custom to go unveiled and because the Taliban Vice and Virtue Police usually stay in the towns, these nomadic women are left alone, guarded by vicious dogs and ferocious husbands. This piece is mid-20th century and its origin is Afghanistan.

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