Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Silver brooch

Algeria

 

Collected by David Randall MacIver

Given to the Museum in 1900

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Silver brooch, Algeria

This brooch is made of silver, which, in Muslim areas of Africa, was seen as symbolizing honesty and purity.

View database record 1900.24.2