Extremely rare to find set of Berber woman's jewellery.
This high quality set was made in the Southern Morocco and more specifically in the area of Ida Ou Semlal in Western Anti-Atlas mountains by talented jeweller of the Imazighen peoples. The culture of those indigenous tribes of Northern Africa reaches back thousands of years to Proto-Mediterraneans and transcends to the present times archetypes of myths and legends captured in unique patterns and symbols.
Dating from late19th to early 20th C.
The set consists of a headdress (taounza), two pairs of fibulae (tizerzai) broches, central piece of two sisla chains joined with an egg-shaped tagmout.
Materials: silver, stones, coral, glass, enamel.
Length of triangular fibulas: 22cm.
Length of sislas with togmout: 54cm.
Condition: very good with just minor chips of enamels, one coin missing and two coins detached but present - as seen on photos.
For reference - a set from the Minneapolis Institute of Art collection:
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/4176/fibulae-ida-ou-semlal-amazigh-artist
