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Silver necklace with two clothes pins
Link chain with two clothes pins (fibulae). Both pins, at the ends of the chain, have the shape of a turtle. Animal motives like these are often found in Berber jewelry and have a protective function against all kinds of evil forces. Fibulae with such shapes are particularly used in the southeast of the High Atlas, especially in the Todra valley, Dades valley and Draa valley.‖ Clothing pins (fibul…
Type of item
- Object Type: pin (jewelry)
- pin (jewelry)
- Pin
Date
- voor 1961
Medium
- Material: alloy
- alloy
- Alloy
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1961
Provenance
- 1961-11-10
- Aankoop
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/97176
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- silver
- ambergris
- resin
- metal
- silver
- hair (material)
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z