Mixed Shapes Carnelian Strand Yoruba Pair of very sweet silver

Pair of very sweet silver earrings from Afghanistan

32mm diameter

Concentric circle "eyes"  and geometric lines carved around the entire bead

Both are 90mm long x 20mm diameter with 2mm slightly bow-drilled hole

These are heavy cast bronze beads that are over 100 years old

Mixed Shapes Carnelian Strand Yoruba Pair of very sweet silver28" strand of tabular, cylindrical, round, and bear claw shaped carnelian stone, finely cut and drilled in Idar Oberstein, Germany, and traded in Mali, West Africa in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Tabular are 32mm diameter x 6mm thick; Cylinders are 17mm diameter x 36mm tall; 2 20mm diameter round beads, 2 34mm tall x 5mm thick bear claws in the center. This is an excellent example of German Idar Oberstein stone cutting, material mined in Brazil.