This is how Tunisians preserve their Amazigh heritage
A Amazigh craftsman in Tunisia creates silver jewelry based on molds from ancient Amazigh carvings.
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North Africa is characterized by the manufacture of Amazigh jewelry and jewelry, one of the traditional arts and crafts . Relying on molds from ancient Amazigh carvings.
Ali Ben Talouba, an Amazigh jewelry artisan, says: "I try to love people with Amazigh jewelry and encourage them to use it, so I make it easier for them to pay when buying, and I try to teach them the value of the historical cat they buy."
He crafts custom-made jewelry pieces in a style dominated by the most modern designs, trying to educate customers about the value of this heritage and encourage them to preserve it.
The same is the case with the family of the craftsman Ali, which confirms its attempt to preserve its cultural heritage and pass it on to its children, considering that buying such jewelry is a lifelong investment.
Despite the decline in the industry in the past years, silver is still very popular and accepted by Amazigh women in Tunisia.
Maryam Traboulsi, the mother of the Amazigh craftsman Ali, said: "We teach our children and we advise them to teach their children to preserve Amazigh jewelry and jewelry so that it does not disappear over time. There are pieces of Amazigh jewelry dating back more than two hundred years."
Iman Bousetta, the wife of the Berber craftsman Ali, said: "We are trying to speak with our children in the Berber language so that we preserve this language and not be forgotten through time."
Researchers in the Amazigh history say that the Amazighs prefer silver because they believe that it symbolizes serenity, goodness, love, peace and security, noting that the Amazighs prefer silver to imitate the pharaoh Sheshenq . And Sheshenq is a Amazigh king who immigrated in the tenth century BC from Libya to Egypt, where he established the twenty-second Pharaonic dynasty and ruled his dynasty for nearly two centuries.
This pharaoh was known for his love for silver, so large quantities of it were buried with him, and his tomb was discovered in the forties of the last century, and because of the large amount of silver discovered in the tomb, he was called the 'silver pharaoh'.
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