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Types

African Jewelry

There are a lot of different types of African jewelry. Some of the common and special styles of jewelry are beaded jewelry, gold jewelry, cowrie shell jewelry, elephant hair jewelry and some bone jewelry.

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 A beadless cultured pearl (whether of freshwater or saltwater origin) may show growth rings, but also a complex central cavity, witness of the first precipitation of the young pearl sac.

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Jewelry can stand you for many things. Sometimes jewelry can show off your wealth, keep you one with the earth, protect you from evil, or maybe will bless you with good luck and all this according to the African legend, of course.

Africans shares those traits culture with other cultures’ jewelry, but it also has interesting and a long past because they truly believe that every jewelry has something magic inside.

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A beaded cultured pearl shows a solid center with no concentric growth rings, whereas a natural pearl shows a series of concentric growth rings.

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Even today as in the past, people in this place use African Jewelry to enhance personal beauty, personal style and in the same time displays the artistry of African craftsmen.

In all cultures of the world, jewelry is an important aspect of fashion especially for woman. Maybe this is the reason why those products are made from a variety of materials and usually of whatever resource is deemed valuable by the culture.

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When a cultured pearl with a bead nucleas is X-rayed, it reveals a different structure to that of a natural pearl (see diagram).

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Usually those things were used for ritual dances, waist chains or beaded belts were used at wedding ceremonies, to celebrate happy moments in family and cowrie shells have even been used as a form of money to exchange with other products.

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After a bead is inserted into the oyster, it secretes a few layers of nacre around the bead; the resulting cultured pearl can then be harvested in as few as six months.

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Tribal jewelry in Africa were traditionally used to tell about something or to tell a story. Depending on the African culture and times, jewelry has been used as a cultural affiliation symbol or designated as a status.

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Cultured pearls can be distinguished from natural pearls by X-ray examination. Nucleated cultured pearls are often 'preformed' as they tend to follow the shape of the implanted shell bead nucleus.

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These various materials were fashioned into waist chains, necklaces, ankle chains, bracelets and head or body adornments.

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Most saltwater cultured pearls are grown with beads. Tradenames of cultured pearls are Akoya, white or golden South sea, and black Tahitian. Most beadless cultured pearls are mantle-grown in freshwater shells in China, and are known as freshwater cultured pearls.

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Tribal Jewelry

Tribal African Jewelry

Tribal Jewelry in African were made from natural materials such as amber, paper, bone, wood, ivory, metal, shells, hair, stone and a lot of other natural materials. Those materials were unique and so beautiful.

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There are a number of methods for producing cultured pearls: using freshwater or seawater shells, transplanting the graft into the mantle or into the gonad, and adding a spherical bead as a nucleus.

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Jewelry in Africa dates back thousands of years and the oldest jewelry which was find in this was discovered in a cave in South Africa and it is believed to be about 74,300 years old.

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A tiny piece of mantle tissue (called a graft) from a donor shell is transplanted into a recipient shell, causing a pearl sac to form into which the tissue precipitates calcium carbonate.

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Cultured pearls[edit]

Main article: Cultured pearl

Nuclei from Toba Pearl Island, Japan

Cultured pearls are the response of the shell to a tissue implant.

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Craftsman in Africa continue to produce their beautiful traditional bead work unique to their tribe or region. Selling and producing beads and then jewelry from them has been a major source of income for many people in Africa.

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When the transition to nacre secretion occurs, the brown pebble becomes covered with a nacreous coating. During this process, the pearl sac seems to travel into the shell; however, the sac actually stays in its original relative position the mantle tissue while the shell itself grows. After a couple of years, a pearl forms and the shell may be found by a lucky pearl fisher.