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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 593285, member: 2844"]The Kuchi are an Afghan Pashtun tribe, but the name Kuchi is now used for other Afghan and some Pakistani nomadic tribes as well. All of them are of Iranian tribal origin.</p><p>When it comes to jewellery, the term Kuchi is used for any tribal looking jewellery from Western Asia nowadays.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the pendants are Indian, and could be Banjara. The script on some of the coins looks like an Indian script to me, not Farsi/Arabic. The mango pendant also looks Indian to me.</p><p>The Banjara or Lambani are a Gypsy people in India. They use a lot of crescent moon symbolism.</p><p>Confusingly, there is some overlap in Kuchi and Banjara jewellery. They both use bells, coins and jhumka-like pendants.</p><p>In general the Kuchi use more glass and less silver and coins than the Banjara, who use more silver and coins and less glass. They both love colours. I use the word silver loosely, btw.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I think the beads that look like coral are actually glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kuchi:</p><p><img src="http://theredcamel.tripod.com/kuchi/woman_jewelry.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Banjara:</p><p><img src="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2148/1807/files/Lambani_Women2_-_sabala_large.jpg?v=1500535061" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 593285, member: 2844"]The Kuchi are an Afghan Pashtun tribe, but the name Kuchi is now used for other Afghan and some Pakistani nomadic tribes as well. All of them are of Iranian tribal origin. When it comes to jewellery, the term Kuchi is used for any tribal looking jewellery from Western Asia nowadays. I think the pendants are Indian, and could be Banjara. The script on some of the coins looks like an Indian script to me, not Farsi/Arabic. The mango pendant also looks Indian to me. The Banjara or Lambani are a Gypsy people in India. They use a lot of crescent moon symbolism. Confusingly, there is some overlap in Kuchi and Banjara jewellery. They both use bells, coins and jhumka-like pendants. In general the Kuchi use more glass and less silver and coins than the Banjara, who use more silver and coins and less glass. They both love colours. I use the word silver loosely, btw.;) I think the beads that look like coral are actually glass. Kuchi: [IMG]http://theredcamel.tripod.com/kuchi/woman_jewelry.jpg[/IMG] Banjara: [IMG]https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2148/1807/files/Lambani_Women2_-_sabala_large.jpg?v=1500535061[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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