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Chat Chat Necklace

Sale price$375.00

This stunning necklace holds deep cultural significance as traditional attire for Tuareg women during wedding ceremonies. The necklace features a captivating arrangement of glass beads encircling the neck, perfectly complementing the sterling silver elements. Designed for versatility, the necklace can be elegantly paired with coordinating earrings or worn separately, offering flexibility in styling for various occasions beyond the wedding day.  [Earrings Sold Separately] 

The typical gift of a man to his beloved, betrothed or bride would be a shatshat, which is a delicate necklace of relatively discrete proportions when compared to the dimensions of some other jewelry. This style is quite distinct in its simple elegance and charm. Shat Shat earrings and necklaces represent the love and union that is depicted for instance in the legend of the Agadez cross, and remains at the core of the Tuareg ideal relations even today. The shat shat appears dainty, but it symbolizes the strength of such bonds. The word shat shat refers to the small pendants themselves, which are strung on the necklaces of silver and glass beads, and are fashioned in mere triangles, the feminine (some say sexual symbol), or the delicate shapes finely chiseled and engraved. The shat shat is said to have powerful connotations to fertility and abundance, and the gesture of giving one represents the physical act and the manifest wish to insure a long, fruitful and prosperous union with many children. Essentially as for all other objects designed by Tuareg artisans to adorn women, the shat shat is a form that is continuously renewed and fashioned to symbolize, above all, balance and beauty in all things. [Tuareg Jewelry: Traditional Patterns and Symbols] 

Size: 21 in long [pendant is .75 x .75in] Weight: .82 oz

Please be aware that each piece is meticulously crafted by hand, thus there may be slight variations in size and design, as well as minor imperfections. The sizes provided serve only as a general reference.

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Chat Chat Necklace
Chat Chat Necklace Sale price$375.00

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