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African jewelry's are known for their quality and beauty all over the world. There are many types of African jewelry's such as pendants, bracelets, earrings, necklaces, and other types of tribal African jewelry. Jewelry made from Africana and Africa can be great gifts for men, for women even for children.

Continent of Africa is the birth place of human and mankind civilization. It is also the place where people first wore and made jewelry. In Kenya over 40,000 years ago, beads were made from different materials and most of the time wood and different stones were the main materials. As time moved on Africa, the Africans craftsmen improved and developed their jewelry making techniques and today those products of the most beautiful jewelry in the world. The oldest African jewelry were discovered in 2004, in the place called Blombos cave on the southern tip of South Africa. Those jewelry are estimated at being over 75 500 years old and most of them are pea-sized or mollusk shell beads that had been pierced a long time ago.

Materials Used in African Jewelry

Throughout history Africans have tended to develop their work and they have started to use different organic materials and other materials that were readily available and suitable in their region to create their jewelry. Africans has used a different materials to make their products. First they started with those materials that they used to find in nature and then as the time moved they started to make different combinations and today they use almost every material for their jewelers. Jewelry may indicate an individual's power, wealth and of course their standing in the society. The materials that Africans uses today range from sea shells and beads to gold and silver.

Here are some materials to make handmade African jewelry: amber, carved stone, glass, wood, paper, wood,ivory, animal hair, egg shells, bone, sea shells and a lot of other things.A long time ago African peoples have cherished different beads and appreciated a lot their beauty. They have always made beautiful jewelry of various materials, perforated, beads are small and often rounded small objects found around the world. African beads in particular has become element of African adornment and are widely used in African regalia and clothing.

Beads and handmade jewelry have played an important role in Africans life and in the court life of African kingdoms, being valued sometimes as currency and sometimes as an artistic creation. The materials used to make those African products have varied over time, and include stone, clay, paper, metal, wood, shells and glass.

Handmade African Beads has often been complemented and enhanced with other beads like, brilliantly white cowrie. Those beats have also served as source of embellishment and currency and have been widely traded around Africa.White stone beads have been found near Nigeria- Nok. Those have been discovered 1588 years ago. In the 15 century, artists in Nigeria (the Kingdom of Benin), have started to use coral beads, brought in large quantities by people in Portugal, to make elaborate regalia and clothing for their kings.

Glass originally in the sort of imported beads or bottles, is another important uncooked material in African bead creating. The bead makers either terrain up or broke the glass and then they melted it, along with produced new products of beads.

Throughout history, Africans have imported glass beads along with used them for add on and elaborate beadwork. At Djenne', Mali, Roman-style along with Egyptian Ptolemaic period (304-30 M. C. ) glass beads, traded across the Sahara, are found at sites dated from 300 B. H. to A. D. 250. Along the coast of eastern Africa, opaque glass beads from India are discovered in sites dated to your. D. 200. A bead market also existed in Mapungubwe, South Africa, from A. N. 600 to 1200. It's not known whether the goblet for these beads was produced locally or brought in.

Since the fifteenth century, Europeans have brought to Africa millions of goblet beads from Italy, The Netherlands Bohemia and (now part of the Czech Republic). European companies specialized in bead trade to Africa and offered many designs. They produced "trading cards" showing the assortment of bead types thus to their African customers and visitors.

Chevron beads, produced mainly in Venice along with shipped to Africa since the sixteenth century, have been especially popular in Western side Africa. Today, these samples and cards allow researchers to spot and date specific sorts of beads. In many areas, men wear them during necklace ensembles to show their status and prosperity.

Fulani gold earrings

The Fulani which are also called the Fula or Fulbe, are well known all over the world for their jewelry crafting. The special super-large gold twist earrings can be up to five inches long and usually is made out of silver or gold.
As is true with most African this specific quickly and thoroughly conveys the wealth and status in the wearer. Traditionally the nomadic Fulani, wear their wealth inside their jewelry. They can carry this using them wherever they go; and then easily buy goods from people they meet.

Interesting Fact about African Jewelry

Archeologists have found beaded necklaces and beads buried with chiefs and kings in ancient African graves. Wearing and most important owning and old African jewelry or bead is believed to provide wisdom, hope, luck and well-being to its owner.

Economical and traditional African Jewelry

You can see a huge selection of African necklaces, African earrings and African bracelets, for you to own and wear. You will be able to wear together an African jewelry set for every day style! Almost all of African products are handmade, so you're sure to get something special and unique. Today is so easy to find African products because almost every online shop has something from famous African culture.

Throughout African societies across history, the type and level of jewelry worn represent the wealth in the wearer. Rulers and chiefs using some parts of Africa wore different beads using their company subjects to distinguish themselves since the ruler or chief. In Africa art of jewelry making was encouraged to show that the rulers had a prosperous kingdom. Definitely jewelry is important part for Africans.In some elements of Africa, a person's wealth is measured by the number of livestock he owns. As soon as livestock is killed regarding food, every part in the animal is used. So the bones usually are crafted into jewelry for them to be used for a thing. They believe that if a person is wearing many bits of bone jewelry, he may be pretty wealthy and lucky.

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African jewelry's are known for their quality and beauty all over the world. There are many types of African jewelry's such as pendants, bracelets, earrings, necklaces, and other types of tribal African jewelry. Jewelry made from Africana and Africa can be great gifts for men, for women even for children.

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It can be storage of wealth; amassing gold or precious metals or stones in bracelets and amulets; or it can be a symbol of prestige and power reflecting status in society... or it can just simply be a decorative item used to hold hair back.

The oldest African jewelry ever discovered was recently found, in 2004, in the Blombos cave on the southern tip of S. Africa. They are estimated at being over 75 000 years old and are pea-sized, mollusc shell beads that had been pierced. They have worn areas indicating that they were probably once strung into a necklace or bracelet.

There are other African beads dating back 45,000 years.

The oldest African jewelry ever discovered was recently found (2004) in the Blombos cave on the southern tip of S. Africa. They are estimated at being over 75 000 years old and are pea-sized, mollusc shell beads that had been pierced. They have worn areas indicating that they were probably once strung into a necklace or bracelet.

Historically, African jewelry is also used to trade and barter with, mainly in exchange for cloth and food, but also very sadly for slaves.

African jewelry is seldom just ornamental; religion, rituals and ceremonies play a large part. Found objects are often included and can carry personal and symbolic meanings for the wearer.

Jewelry is worn by men, women and children, in some cases from a very early age and may be replaced at a certain age or status event like puberty, reaching manhood or marriage.

African jewelry has customarily been created from organic materials like hide, porcupine quill, bone, animal teeth, animal hair, seeds, nuts, husks, sea and land shells, egg shell, wood, ivory and carved stone.

Ostrich shells have been discovered in disc shaped form in Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites. Ostrich bone is one of the oldest forms of material used. Cowrie shells have an ancient history in Africa and are prized for their durability and their shape symbolizing female fertility.

In Benin during the 15th C, stone beads were expertly carved and in the 16th C coral beads brought from the coast by Portuguese traders were incorporated into necklaces. In Kenya, the Turkana have manufactured large, faceted iron beads for generations.

From the 1400's and at its height in the 1800's, molded glass and ceramic trade beads, brass bells and coins were introduced to add extra choice of embellishment. Copper and iron alloys were used to produce pendants and simple jewelry. Ivory and amber have also had a tremendous influence in trade and handicrafts on the African continent. The former was especially treasured in Benin in the 16th Century.

Traditionally African jewelry has been used to adorn necks, ears, arms, legs, toes, hair and waists and can be pierced, strapped or sewn on. Sometimes it can be left for long periods of time causing physical body damage and restricting movement.

Tribal African jewelry is dependent upon three things:

1. what is available locally

2. what has been traded and bartered for over the centuries

3. what the customs and traditions are in the different cultures.

For example, the lost wax method of bronze casting in Nigeria and Benin started by the Yoruba in the 13th C has produced very intricate modelling of bronze pieces and c opper is another metal historically used.

In Ghana, the coronation of kings and leaders is celebrated with a show of gold wealth that is astounding in its glory. Gold bracelets, necklaces and rings all have symbolic meaning attached to the styling and motifs used in the making.

When tribes are nomadic like the Turkana, Dinka and Samburu in Sudan and Kenya, their creativity is given an outlet in the form of personal adornment.

Jewelry is worn to express tribal association, age, civil and marital status and wealth.

Beaded African jewelry can give out as much information as is written or spoken, it has its own language and much can be derived about history, culture and status. In southern and eastern Africa, most inhabitants can wear beaded refinement but in Yoruba culture it is confined to rulers and in the Cameroon, beads are an expression of privilege.

The Kenyan bride, at left, is in traditional beaded adornment including aluminium 'birds' to attract sunlight and therefore the attention of her groom. Bead culture, hugely and enthusiastically adopted by many tribes, is a relatively new one in Africa.

The earliest known Maasai and Samburu items are dated around 1850; large red beads that were taken back to Holland.

With the introduction of small, colourful glass beads from Italy and other parts of Europe, a whole mythology built up around the beads with colours and band or block patterns playing a significant role.

Neckbands became the primary piece of African jewelry for men and women.

African Jewelry items tend to be big and bold and chunky using ethnic and metal beads, ostrich and ebony discs, beaten silver and mineral stones.

Gemstones, precious and semi precious, new and antique, have decorative and spiritual properties that are highly valued and increasingly in demand. Luckily, Africa is hugely wealthy with resources in this area and the supply of materials comes easily.

Diamonds, interestingly, are culturally seen as devoid of colour and were not traditionally favoured by the indigenous people of Africa.

Above is a selection of jewelry designed using antique and ancient beads in a contemporary fashion.

Stones used by African artisans include turquoise, lapis lazuli, sapphires, emeralds and rubies as well as topaz, amethyst, rose quartz and moonstone.

These silver earrings are a contemporary take on traditional Fulani hoops blending natural mineral elements with tribal design.

Above is a collection of tribal jewelry found in a specialist market in St Louis, Senegal.

Turkana, Masai, Zulu... too many tribal sources to mention are gathered together for sale in an established tourist orientated market. Undeniably beautiful and attractive, traders will transport both beads and strung items for literally thousands of kilometers to open markets where tourists and enthusiasts come to buy.

The market is competitive and genuine articles are appreciated and given the value they deserve.

Specialist collier makers and designers like Benin born Marie-Jose Crispin of Goree Island, Dakar take pride in collecting valuable beads, stones, bones, metals and artifacts and stringing them together to make magnificent unique, one-off items that are in fact research items and often give testament to how far a single item can travel... and of the ways it can travel; like appearing in the sand or in a bequeathed or discovered box or trunk after someone has died.

This extraordinary image is the work of a young photographer John Kenny whose beautiful work captures traditional jewelry worn in modern time. The hair clips are give-aways! An exquisite image documentation to her heritage.

Contemporary African Jewelry

African jewelry is interpreted in many ways in the contemporary fashion world. Black models are very in vogue and tribal adornment embellishes and enhances many necks and bodies of all races.

Today jewelry manufacture has become an art form and a way to express one's personality, a form of individual expression.

Since 'jewelry' is derived from a Latin word 'jocale' which means 'plaything' we can see that historically it has been used as a form of adornment that gives pleasure and status to its wearer.

With access to beautiful stones, precious metals and other unusual material source like fossils and ebonised wood, there has been an explosion of phenomenal design in the jewelry world.

Creativity is at an all time high.

Piece - this is a collection that pays tribute to the creative power of the African people and how the use and trade of beads has been so significant in Africa's history and culture.

Designed in collaboration with Beauty Maswanganyi a master beader, the collection seeks to reflect the contribution of San bushmen with their ostrich shell beads, the African blacksmith who made cast bronze beads, the Mozambican precious natural resources with hand carved timber beads and West African communities who used cowrie shells as currency.

Coral and amber, both rare and beautiful, and symbolizing status, investment and fertility are majestic additions in the creations.

One of the recurring themes we see when looking at art on the African continent is the way artisans are making the most incredible recycled product.

Jewelry is no exception and below are a few examples of the creative energy being applied in this area.

It's an exceptionally good practice for so many reasons:

the commercial gain of the individual or community

the experience and skills acquired not only in creation of the product but also learning to manage the finances and marketing

the commitment to cleaning up the environment

the artistic growth of individuals and the value perceived in creating something beautiful from very little

The products featured above seek to do all those things and are effective in achieving success.

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