No inspiration! A weekend that flew away and gave me no time to think about anything... and now I have been thinking about a post for such a long time. Usually it just flows, it is spontanious. Today it seems to be work! So I wanted to find a great new piece of jewellery I could research on but after looking at maybe a 1.000 images I could only summarise that I had seen a lot of nice pieces, but not one of them special enough to write to you about tonight. Back to square 1 :-(
Then I remembered something from my childhood: on a trip to the North of Cameroon when I was 17 or so, I visited a local smith, who had a clay oven in the ground and could melt metal like brass. He was therefore the richest of the village, but had hardly any food and lots of kids with flies in their eyes and huge bellies. Proudly he showed me the oven and what he made. I remember his kids running around naked with a string around their waist and attached to the string a brass tear-drop-shaped-ball kind of pendant, right above their bumb. I was told that it was to protect their ass-hole from being attacked by evil spirits. Maybe the metal used indeed scared away certain insects or what have you's that would crawl in there and make them sick? I have a picture of one of these kids, and promise to look for it and scan it soon ;-) Next I decided to google some keywords to see if I could find a sensible explanation, but nothing :-( disappointed. But because I insist to post tonight, I will leave you with a cute talisman made out of wood, used by a tribe in Angola... isn't it pretty?
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