Aluminium anklet.
This piece was sourced i mhamid. I was told by the vendor that it came accross the desert. And he also referred to it as bella. The bella peoples are the slaves of the tuareg . They made adornment from whatever was available cheaply to replicate the jeweles of their masters. This piece was likely to have originally been a cooking pot. Width 2.7 Cm at widest. Diameter 9.35 Cm.
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