DepartmentMiddle East

Aqd Wazari

Namechoker; necklace

Dateca. 1910

Possibly madeIRBID, JORDAN, Middle East, Asia

Mediumsilver, silver coins, orange and off-pink glass beads, cotton

Dimensionsoverall: 33 CM L

Credit LineIFAF Collection

Object numberFA.1972.25.49

Collections

Palestinian Dress and Jewelry

DescriptionFA. 72.25 49 'Aqd Wazari (ca. 1910) This necklace is named after the six-piaster silver coins (wazariyyat) which are its principal decoration. It consists of flat figure-eight pieces of silver linked end to end and backed with a cloth band. The coins include a number of smaller ten-para coins (one quarter of a piaster). A strip of silver links edged with tubular glass beads and ten-para coins hangs from the middle as a central pendant. The wazari coins are all dated either A.H. 1223 (A.D. 1808-9) or 1277 (1860-61); the paras, 1327 (1909-10). Length: 33 cm. (Palestinian Costume and Jewelry, Yedida Kalfon Stillman, 1979 ISBN: 0-82630490-7)

Choker. North Palestine (?) Worn in north part of Ghar. Black neck band fastened with snap, trimmed with silver chain and "wazary" coins and smaller "Barat" coins (Turkish) with pink glass beads above each of them.