Large Vintage Kitab Amulet Morocco - Rita Okrent Collection (P603)

Large Vintage Kitab Amulet Morocco - Rita Okrent Collection (P603)This large square Kitab amulet would make a lovely wall hanging or substantial focal pendant. Estimated circa 1960's. The amulet has decorative copper etching over a silver metal base. It would have been used to hold a protective verse or prayer and would have been worn by a man, most likely, as the ones worn by girls and women tended to be smaller. Measures 4. 5 inches wide and long (11. 5 cm) and is on a worn leather strand measuring approximately

like charm case beads with loops

Small tube beads measure 8-19mm diameter- large focal beads measure up to 22mm diameter

with multicolored faience disk beads

(Item location: Right)

while these talismans are called

Strand antique or vintage mixed handmade silver beads

Very sweet

Beads measure 8-9mm each in diameter and 3-5mm hole to hole

clear and translucent Dogon Beads

a seal and a pre-Columbian figure

Metal pendant

Ancient Mali