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Original Message:   HOW BIG BEADS OF AMBER WERE WORN IN MAURITANIA
Hair ornaments in (tribal) Mauritania until ca. 1970/75:

- Carved shells - Muraqat - Silver (as beads [often "El Fadda"] and/or amulettes) - AMBER (NOT RESIN!) - various glass beads - various stone beads (> khorb) - most Idar-Oberstein or Gablonz

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