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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 258881, member: 2844&quot;]Yes a strange term, they wouldn&#039;t hold a complete Torah, or Koran, for that matter.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> I always call them amulet boxes, and where applicable, hirz. They could have contained anything, it was personalized. So they held either healing or protective texts from the scriptures, talismanic stones, bits of cloth, herbs. Anything that would protect or assist in whatever was an issue to the owner.</p><p>About the bead, maybe there was only one person in an obscure settlement who ever made them. But he would have seen the original dugag beads, and maybe have been trained by a Bedihi.</p><p><br /></p><p>Earlier you asked about a maker&#039;s mark, I forgot to answer that one. </p><p>It is not a maker&#039;s mark, here is one on a Bedihi dugag from one of my Yemeni necklaces:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]80743[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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