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Posted by: karavanserai Post Reply
10/30/2020, 07:20:18

I am a big fan of pusiostoma and I am not the only one. They pop up in adornments from South Morocco throughout the Western Sahara, usually dispersed in between other beads and pendants. After so many years of collecting the solitary ones, I was pleasantly surprised to see these
'rescued' Peul/Fulani temple pendants. Why rescued? Well traders buy the shells by piece, but they are often strung and rolled up in these balls the Fulani use as temple decoration. No one knows how many shells there are in one such ball, so sellers cut them up. I was lucky our friend was in time to stop the trader from doing so.
Happy girl! Hope you enjoy them too.
Length including the vaseline beads = 85 mm

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Very cool, thanks for sharing!
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Posted by: Rosanna Post Reply
10/30/2020, 11:32:27



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Posted by: Joyce Post Reply
10/30/2020, 20:43:38

Love those, thanks for showing them! Had no idea they were used in this way. I was excited to find a long strand of these at a rummage sale last year. But their holes are end to end, not side to side.



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That certainly was a lucky find! Do you have a picture please? Thanks
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Posted by: karavanserai Post Reply
11/02/2020, 06:30:02

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Very Delightful!
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Posted by: Beadman Post Reply
11/05/2020, 13:41:45

Martine—When you write "temple decoration" I suppose you mean flanking the face, and not "for a place of worship." Correct? JDA.



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Posted by: karavanserai Post Reply
11/06/2020, 10:42:30

Indeed. That is the term used in literature. Head adornment/decoration is too general and it is not an ear decoration. It really is a piece that is either attached or braided into the hair in such a way that it falls along the ears. We haven't found a picture yet of a person wearing these specific ones.
I am adding a picture of a Mauritanian temple ornament for a little girl. There is a big chance the pusiostoma balls were also attached to one another.

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Many ladies...,
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Posted by: Beadman Post Reply
11/09/2020, 13:13:49

..., (and some men) in different parts of Asia and Africa, wear head ornaments that frame the face on both sides (and may cascade onto the shoulders). This includes pieces that are easily mistaken for "earrings," and also those that may be more properly called hair-strings. As a Jewelry Historian, I am well-familiar with these adornments.

JDA.



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Posted by: AnneLFG Post Reply
11/08/2020, 19:59:28

Evidently Peul hairstyle I am thinking. Sorry no source for photo. The Photographer is perhaps accredited somewhere in the many pics on Pinterest (my pet peeve with Pinterest is that so many photos are poorly or mistakenly described or unaccredited). This does not show the grouping of the shells- though maybe a looser gather, but does show them being worn:

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Wondering if they make a custom head/neck rest so they can sleep with this "do"?
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Posted by: Rosanna Post Reply
11/09/2020, 14:12:33



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Re: Wondering if they make a custom head/neck rest so they can sleep with this "do"?
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Posted by: karavanserai Post Reply
11/10/2020, 15:29:48

To my knowledge they don’t though it could be handy with these hairstyles. To be sure I checked with my brother who is a headrest collector and he never saw or heard about them. I quickly went through some headrest books and the Fulani are completely absent in
there.
Who knows it might come into fashion one day....

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