Unusual silver khamsa or Hand of Fatima
Worn by the upper Beldi class of Tunis
2" high, including pearls
Early to mid-20th century
you see a tiny sign planted in the ground. bending down to read, you just make out, in impossibly tiny script “a mundane clump of dirt; much beloved by god, like any other”
Ghada Karmi and Ellen Siegel, in 1973, 1992 and 2011. Photos by Francis Khoo (1, 2) and Jean-Pascal Deillon (3).
How could you send such a thang