Fibula, One of a Pair
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Perhaps the best-known form of North African Berber jewelry is the triangular shaped fibula. This large pair would have been worn at the shoulder, and is ornamented on the recto and verso with brightly colored enamels that are typical of the Kabylie region in Algeria. Enameling techniques in North African Berber jewelry are believed to have been brought by jewelers exiled from Muslim Spain after the Reconquista in the fifteenth century.
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